London Labour and the London Poor Volume III: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

London Labour and the London Poor Volume III, credited to Henry Mayhew, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

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LibriVox recording of London Labour and the London Poor Volume III by Henry Mayhew. Read in English by Gillian Hendrie Subtitled, "A Cyclopaedia of the condition and earnings of those that will work, those that cannot work, and those that will not work." "The history of a people from the lips of the people themselves .. their labour, earnings, trials and sufferings, in their own unvarnished language, and to portray the condition of their homes and their families by personal observation of the places ..." "My earnest hope is that the book may serve to give the rich a more intimate knowledge of the sufferings, and the frequent heroism under those sufferings, of the poor ..." Henry Mayhew was a social researcher and journalist. He compiled a four-volume work in minute detail on the lives of the poor in London, of which this is the third, published in 1816. - Summary by Peter Yearsley

Recording facts

• Recording title: London Labour and the London Poor Volume III
• Author credits: Henry Mayhew
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 95
• Listed recording duration: 51:25:09

Catalogue topics

• London
• labour
• poor
• working

Opening tracks: first 24 of 95

1. 01 - THE DESTROYERS OF VERMIN Part 1: The Rat-Killer; Rats — 27:01
2. 02 - THE DESTROYERS OF VERMIN Part 2: A Night at Rat Killing; Jimmy Shaw — 35:27
3. 03 - THE DESTROYERS OF VERMIN Part 3: Jack Black — 56:44
4. 04 - THE DESTROYERS OF VERMIN Part 4: Sewerman; Mouse-trap Maker — 26:31
5. 05 - THE DESTROYERS OF VERMIN Part 5: Flies — 28:31
6. 06 - THE DESTROYERS OF VERMIN Part 6:“Catch-’em-Alive” Sellers; Fly-paper Maker — 30:53
7. 07 - THE DESTROYERS OF VERMIN part 7: Of Bugs and Fleas; Her Majesty’s Bug-Destroyer — 33:51
8. 08 - THE DESTROYERS OF VERMIN Part 8: Black Beetles; Beetle Destroyers; Crickets — 26:17
9. 09 - STREET-EXHIBITORS Part 1: Punch Part 1 — 29:26
10. 10 - STREET-EXHIBITORS Part 2: Punch Part 2 — 36:41
11. 11 - STREET-EXHIBITORS Part 3: Punch Part 3 — 44:35
12. 12 - STREET-EXHIBITORS Part 4: The Fantoccini Man — 28:47
13. 13 - STREET-EXHIBITORS Part 5: Guy Fawkeses — 19:04
14. 14 - STREET-EXHIBITORS Part 6: Guy Fawkes Man and Boy — 30:13
15. 15 - STREET-EXHIBITORS Part 7: An Old Street Showman; The Chinese Shades — 32:39
16. 16 - STREET-EXHIBITORS Part 8: Exhibitor of Mechanical Figures; The Telescope Exhibitor — 39:56
17. 17 - STREET-EXHIBITORS Part 9: Exhibitor of the Microscope. — 32:31
18. 18 - STREET-EXHIBITORS Part 10: Peep Shows; Acrobat, or Street-Posturer. — 41:51
19. 19 - STREET-EXHIBITORS Part 11: The Street Risley — 27:23
20. 20 - STREET-EXHIBITORS Part 12: The Strong Man — 38:22
21. 21 - STREET-EXHIBITORS Part 13: The Street Juggler; The Street Conjurer — 42:03
22. 22 - STREET-EXHIBITORS Part 14: Statement of another Street Conjurer; The Street Fire-King, or Salamander — 46:30
23. 23 - STREET-EXHIBITORS Part 15: The Snake, Sword, and Knife-Swallower; Street Clown — 28:16
24. 24 - STREET-EXHIBITORS Part 16: The Penny-Gaff Clown — 33:19

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