“A plebeian fighting for the poor and rewarded with poverty.”
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Life of a Little-Known Chartist
An English Republican’s View of Crime and its Causes
G. W. M. Reynolds, the “vicious republican” of the Victorian era, attributed the cause of all crime to the the existence of the royal family and the political establishment.
The Underclass of 19th-Century New York City: The Work of Jacob A. Riis (1849-1914)
Stephen Basdeo takes a look at the life of one of New York’s pioneering social reformers, Jacob A. Riis.
