A weekly periodical publishing the work, salary, and experiences of the poor people also known as 'street folks' of London. The stories focused on the fruit and vegetables of street stalls, scavengers, the exhibition of peepshows and live animals, and hawking fake news. The editor, author, and compiler of London Labor was Henry Mayhew. Though the publication only lasted 14 months it is tied to Mayhew's successes despite his personal biases and occasional disgust with those he interviewed.

The trials of female authorship in the Victorian Era were not limited to England. On this map, I have marked where several prolific female authors of the time published works between 1837 and 1901, illustrating that issues of gender in publication that took place in the United Kingdom were actually global contentions. Though laws at the time did not necessarily prevent women writers from being published, the narrow parameters of the feminine literary tradition--made up of sexist assumptions and attitudes, and upheld by prejudice--certainly limited what they could write about and who would publish their work. In order to avoid being dismissed as sentimental, frivolous, or domestic, in order to establish themselves without assuming stereotypical “feminine identities” (Cambridge), and in order to widen their writerly scope into areas such as politics, social problems, gender roles, economics, and other typically masculine topics, many female writers in...

The road Constitution Hill in London, England, is close to the Buckingham Palace Gardens. Queen Victoria and Prince Albert would often ride through it in a carriage. Three of the seven assassination attempts against Victoria occurred here: Edward Oxford, John Francis, and William Hamilton shot at Queen Victoria in her carriage in 1840, 1842, and 1849, respectively. They all occurred very similarly, with each man firing at her carriage, failing to injure her or anyone else, and then getting swiftly captured and incarcerated afterward. Two of the would-be assassins were sentenced to life-long exile in Australia, though Edward Oxford spent many years in the pleasantly named State Criminal Lunatic Asylum as well as Broadmoor Hospital (both in England) because he was deemed insane in his conviction trial. John Francis was to be hanged, but Queen Victoria commuted his sentence to Australian exile. The sympathetic Irishman William Hamilton was also sentenced to exile, but only for 7 years...

The Industrial Revolution was a time of booming economic development that spurred demand for the production of goods. The use of machines in the manufacturing and transportation of those products created an additional demand for coal. The heavy demand for all of these products led employers to employ children to work in dangerous situations for a fraction of the wages given to adults. Amongst the many horrors that occurred in work situations, this map will chart some ares where coal mining took place, the Huskar Colliery tragedy in the Silkstone area, and well known textile factory cities like Manchester, Stockport, Bolton, and Hyde with textile. 

During the early part of the industrial revolution, there was little oversight regarding labor laws, and children were often used to reach small spaces. The children were used as "trappers" to open and close doors to allow airflow...