Life and labour of the people of London [microform] : the Charles Booth collection, 1885-1905, from the British Library of Political and Economic Science, London.

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Life and labour of the people of London [microform] : the Charles Booth collection, 1885-1905, from the British Library of Political and Economic Science, London.

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"All the original manuscript material which formed the basis of Booth's seventeen volume work Life and Labour of the People of London"--Publisher's note, reel 1.

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Booth, Charles, 1840-1916

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Charles James Booth was born the son of a Merseyside coal merchant on 30 March 1840. He was educated at the Royal Liverpool Institution and became apprenticed to a trading company, Lamport and Holt. Charles went on to set up a steamship company trading between Liverpool and Northern Brazil. Beyond his commercial aspirations, Charles wished to do something for the under-privileged of Victorian England and he joined the Birmingham Education League, founded to promote secular education...