Dreamers Rise

A few weeks back Michael Leddy at Orange Crate Art posted a passage from Henry Mayhew's The Great World of London in which Mayhew desc...

Henry Mayhew: I may mention that in the course of my inquiry into the condition of the fancy cabinet-makers of the metropolis, one elderly...

Henry Mayhew, the great chronicler of 19th-century London's working poor, collected the following tale in the course of an interview wit...

Daniel Defoe: I heard of one infected creature, who, running out of his bed in his shirt, in the anguish and agony of his swellings, of whi...