The Making of Henry Mayhew's London Labour and the London Poor

Examining the publication London Labour and the London Poor by Henry Mayhew.

The publication London Labour and the London Poor was the result of hundreds of interviews Henry Mayhew conducted during the
1840s and 1850s with the city’s street sellers, beggars, entertainers, prostitutes and thieves. It is one of the most remarkable works of the period, at once a pioneering piece of investigative journalism
and an influential exercise in myth-making.

In this talk, Robert Douglas-Fairhurst discusses Mayhew’s life, working methods and style of writing, and reads extracts from the
finished work.

Robert Douglas-Fairhurst is the editor of a new selected edition of London Labour and the London Poor published by Oxford University Press, and a Fellow of Magdalen
College, Oxford. He writes regularly for the Daily Telegraph and Times Literary Supplement, and is a frequent contributor to radio and television.

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