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4 de sept. de 2012 · The Most Disgusting Jobs in Victorian London is drawn from the work of Henry Mayhew, the pioneering Victorian journalist. Mayhew wrote about the lives of ordinary Londoners, focusing on street life and the poor, and gathered his journalism together under the title London Labour and the London Poor.
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The Most Disgusting Jobs in Victorian London is drawn from the work of Henry Mayhew, the pioneering Victorian journalist. Mayhew wrote about the lives of ordinary Londoners, focusing on street life and the poor, and gathered his journalism together under the title London Labour and the London Poor.
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- Rat Catcher
- Chimney Sweep
- Scavengers
- Workhouse
Rats were ubiquitous in Victorian London. The sanitary conditions were dire; filth and disease were commonplace, and the city was blighted by several cholera epidemics. Rat catching was big business, and the rodents proved highly saleable, especially to publicans who operated rat pits where they would make rats and dogs fight. Rat catchers caught r...
Children as young as six or seven would be sent up chimneys to clean away the soot. They didn't often get paid, and received meagre food for their efforts. The chimneys were very narrow and children would often get stuck in them. Children would also develop respiratory problems due to long term exposure to soot, and would die as a result. Not as fu...
We know a lot about the menial jobs Victorian Londoners did because of the meticulous work of Henry Mayhew, described as a clever journalist by some, and the father of sociology by others. He earned this reputation through his work, London Labour and the London Poor, a mammoth encyclopaedia of Victorian London that documented his travels through ma...
As dirty, smelly and unpleasant as scavenging jobs were in Victorian London, the privations of the scavengers paled in comparison to the sheer misery inflicted on paupers in the workhouse. The working and living conditions inside 19th century workhouses were deliberately austere, to put people off from going there in the first place — only the very...
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29 de jun. de 2012 · Our guide to the enduring oddity of many mid-Victorian occupations is Henry Mayhew, whose monumental four-volume study of London Labour and the London Poor remains one of the classics of...
15 de ene. de 2021 · 1. Leech Collector. Leeches were once a useful commodity, with both doctors and quacks using the blood-sucking creatures to treat a number of ailments, ranging from headaches to "hysteria." But...
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4 de sept. de 2012 · The Most Disgusting Jobs in Victorian London is drawn from the work of Henry Mayhew, the pioneering Victorian journalist. Mayhew wrote about the lives of ordinary Londoners, focusing on street life and the poor, and gathered his journalism together under the title London Labour and the London Poor.
