Published On Apr 14, 2024
The Victorian poor lived crowded into small and miserable homes where they often worked and slept in filthy conditions. Work could be both physically demanding and hazardous to health, like fur pulling - constantly breathing in and choking on fluff which hung in the air. But, like a lot of working class people in the 19th Century, the alternative to not working was to starve. In this eyewitness account, find out how they earned a living, the appalling conditions in which they worked, and how, despite all this, everyday family life carried on.
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CC BY - A wife asking her husband 'When will you get rid of the alcohol, Illustration depicting cramped and squalid housing conditions, Specimens from Mr Punch's Industrial Exhibition of 1850, The Sewer Hunter, View of a Dust yard by Wellcome Collection
CC BY-SA - Shop Sign, Chapel market, Islington by Jim Osley - geograph.org.uk
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