Victorian life
'St.Pauls and Ludgate Hill', oil on canvas, William Logsdail, Private Collection, UK.
Families’ life condictions
Queen Victoria and family 1863
A middle-class British Victorian family takes tea
“Misses” by Kate Greenaway ( ). Watercolour, bodycolour and scraping out on paper, c.1879
A Victorian Middle Class Family 1890
A poor family in Victorian Liverpool, taken from Dr Strange's book, Death, Grief and Poverty in Britain
From the Illustrated London News, 22nd May 1847
Works
Baked Potato Seller
Children in the mines
Giulio del Torre “Little match seller”
J. Monstein „match seller“ 1850
Photograph of workers in a factory 1903
Flower Seller Girl with Baby
Woman chimney sweep 1917
Workhouse
Poor Law Acts
Anti-Poor Law Poster drawn in 1837
Houndsditch- Humble Industries
Early Morning at Billingsgate Fish Market
Street Trading at Dudley St. Seven Dials, Nr Covent Garden
A poster that was put up in London in 1848, during the second outbreak of cholera
Suffraggette
A photo taken outside Parliament on 18 November and a handbill publicising a demonstration at Parliament on 22 November 1910
Prisoner
Prisoners from Oxford Gaol. Their photographs were taken because the government was trying to prove a theory that criminals looked different from other people
Prisoners working on a treadmill. Prisoners would be required to trudge up and down the steps for 6 hours a day