Henry Mayhew

Henry Mayhew

male, deceased (1887)
Playwright, reform, Researcher, Punch and Judy, Morning Chronicle, LondonLabourandtheLondonPoor
Henry Mayhew (25 November 1812 - 25th July 1887) was an English social researcher, journalist, playwright and advocate of reform. He was one of the...
Jack Black

Jack Black

male
rat-catcher, nineteenth century, waistcoat, domestication, breeches, LondonLabourandtheLondonPoor
Jack Black was rat-catcher and mole destroyer by appointment to Her Majesty Queen Victoria during the middle of the Nineteenth Century. Black cut a...

Alex Atkinson

male, deceased (1962)
novelist, journalist, From Liverpool, writer, British, punch…LondonLabourandtheLondonPoor, The Big City or the New Mayhem
Alex Atkinson was an English journalist, novelist and playwright who is best remembered for his collaborative works with the illustrator Ronald...