Labour and the Poor Volume X by Charles Mackay

Labour and the Poor Volume X by Charles Mackay

Liverpool in 1850. On the ground reporting from this bustling port city - with personal accounts from the people themselves.

Liverpool was a city alive with people from all over the world - home to a multitude of sailors awaiting their next passage, Irish immigrants escaping famine at home, emigrants awaiting departure to the New World, and the crimps, sharpers, mancatchers, and the multifarious varieties of the genus 'rogue'. Charles Mackay guides us around this dynamic city, through the docks, onto the emigrant ships, and into the back streets, giving us a memorable view of the city in early Victorian times.

Labour and the Poor, the acclaimed investigation into the poor of England and Wales, was undertaken from 1849 to 1851 by The Morning Chronicle, a leading London-based newspaper of the period. This remarkable series will take you into the cities, towns, and villages, into the mills, the factories, and the mines, hearing from the people themselves about their lives, their occupations, and their struggles for survival amidst the overwhelming poverty of the period.

Brought to you in its entirety, for the very first time, this extraordinary and unsurpassed investigation will show what life was really like in the mid-19th century - on the ground reporting at its very best.

In this series:

• Volume I: The Metropolitan Districts. Henry Mayhew.
• Volume I: The Metropolitan Districts. Henry Mayhew.
• Volume I: The Metropolitan Districts. Henry Mayhew.
• Volume IV: The Metropolitan Districts. Henry Mayhew.
• Volume V: The Manufacturing Districts. Angus B. Reach.
• Volume VI: The Rural Districts. Alexander Mackay and Shirley Brooks.
• Volume VI: The Rural Districts. Alexander Mackay and Shirley Brooks.
• Volume VI: Wales. Special Correspondent.
• Volume IX: Birmingham. Charles Mackay.
• Volume X: Liverpool. Charles Mackay.

Charles Mackay was a British poet, journalist, and songwriter. He was born in Perth, Scotland, and educated at the Royal Caledonian Asylum, London, and at Brussels, but spent much of his early life in France. Coming to London in 1834, he engaged in journalism, working for The Morning Chronical from 1835 to 1844 and then became editor of The Glasgow Argus. He moved to The Illustrated London News in 1848, becoming editor in1852.

He published Songs and Poems (1834), wrote a History of London, Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, and a romance, Longbeard. He is also remembered for his Dictionary of Lowland Scotch.

His fame, however, chiefly rests upon his songs, some of which, including Cheer, Boys, Cheer, were in 1846 set to music by Henry Russell, and had an astonishing popularity. Mackay acted as Times correspondent during the American Civil War, and in that capacity discovered and disclosed the Fenian conspiracy. He had the degree of LLD from Glasgow in 1846. He was a member of the PercySociety.