Such tattoos were a form of working class jewellery that was cheap and easy ... James Allen wore a tattoo of a glass and a man smoking a pipe. Among Marion Telford’s nine tattoos was a man ...

As before, Griffin focuses on the lives of the working class, but whereas Liberty’s ... and immiseration that so shocked observers of Victorian England such as Friedrich Engels and Henry Mayhew.

AN incredible collection of sepia photos encapsulate what working life was like for people in Victorian Britain ... image titled The Temperance Sweep, a man stands covered in soot alongside ...

Her book, “Fatherhood and the British Working Class, 1865-1914”, published by Cambridge University Press, concludes that the myth of the Victorian ... about the ‘new man’ it is generally ...

London life for the Victorian working class. Credit: Dominic Winter Book Auctions These pictures were taken in 1877 by photojournalist, John Thomson. He was a pioneer of his time, shunning images ...