Works Consulted 18th and 19th Centuries

Adshead, Joseph Distress in Manchester: Evidence (tabular and otherwise) of the State of the Labouring Classes in 1840-42 Henry Hooper, London, 1842 https://archive.org/details/distressinmanche00ahsh

Aikin, Arthur Journal of a Tour through North Wales and Shropshire J. Johnson, London, 1797

Aikin, John A Description of the Country from Thirty to Forty Miles round Manchester John Steckdale, London, 1795 https://archive.org/stream/b28404555#page/n7/mode/2up

Alison, Sir Archibald England in 1815 and 1845; and the Monetary Famine of 1847; or, a Sufficient and a Contracted Currency William Blackwood and Sons, London, 1847

Allen, Zachariah The Practical Tourist, Or, Sketches of the State of the Useful Arts, and of Society, Scenery, &c. &c, in Great-Britain, France and Holland  A. S. Beckwith, Providence, 1832 (the journey took place in 1825)

Anon. A Sketch of the Hours of Labour, Mealtimes, &c. &c. &c. in Manchester and its Neighbourhood: March 1st, 1825 Printed by J. Harrison and Son, London, 1825

Anonymous The Old and New Poor Law; who Gains and also Loses; Explained by Conversations of Facts of Daily Occurrence John W. Parker, London, 1835

Army Medical Department Reports on the Health of the Army, 1860-1894 Her Majesty’s Stationery Office

Ashley Cooper, Lord Anthony, later Earl of Shaftesbury Speech of Lord Ashley in the House of Commons, on Tuesday 7th of June, 1842, on moving for Leave to bring in a Bill to make Regulations respecting the Age and Sex of Children and Young Persons employed in the Mines and Collieries of the United Kingdom John Murray. London, 1842

Lord Ashley, M. P. Moral and Religious Education of the Working Classes. The Speech of Lord Ashley, M. P. in the House of Commons, on Tuesday, February 28th, 1843 John Ollivier, London, 1843                   Ten Hours Factory Bill. The Speech of Lord Ashley, M. P., in the House of Commons, on Friday, March 15th, 1844 John Ollivier, London, 1844 Ten Hours Factory Bill. The Speech of Lord Ashley, M. P., in the House of Commons, on Friday May 10th, 1844 John Ollivier, London, 1844 Employment of Children in Calico Print Works. Corrected Report of the Speech of Lord Ashley, M. P., in the House of Commons, on 18th February, 1845 John Ollivier, London, 1845

Ashworth, Henry (Director of the Chamber of Commerce of Manchester) Statistics of the present Depression of Trade at Bolton; showing the Mode in which it affects the different Classes of the Population Journal of the Royal Statistical Society of London, Vol. V, 1842, pp. 74-81

Aston, Joseph A Picture of Manchester Printed by W. P. Aston, Manchester, 1826 (Third Edition)

Atwater, W. O.; Woods, Chas D. The Chemical Composition of American Food Materials Government Printing Office, Washington, 1896

Austin, S., Harwood, J. Pyne, G. & C.,  Lancashire Illustrated Fisher, Fisher, Jackson, London, 1832

Baines, Edward, Jr. History of the Cotton Manufacture in Great Britain H. Fisher, London, 1835 https://archive.org/stream/historyofcottonm00bainrich#page/n9/mode/2up

Baines, Edward, Jr. On the Woollen Manufacture of England: With Special Reference to the Leeds Clothing District Quarterly Journal of the Statistical Society of London, Vol. 22, No. 1 (Mar., 1859),  pp. 1-34 http://www.jstor.org/stable/2338194

Baker, Robert On the State and Condition of the Town of Leeds in the West Riding of the County of York In: Local Reports on the Sanitary Condition of the Labouring Population of England, 1842, pp. 348-409

Baker, Robert Sanitary Map of the Town of Leeds, 1842 Report on the Sanitary Conditions of the Labouring Population of Great Britain, Edwin Chadwick, 1842 https://digital.library.cornell.edu/catalog/ss:19343540

Baker, Robert (One of the Inspectors of Factories) On the Industrial and Sanitary Economy of the Borough of Leeds, in 1858 Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Vol. 21, No. 4, 1858, pp. 427-443 https://www.jstor.org/stable/2338327

Banfield, Thomas C. Industry of the Rhine: Manufactures, embracing a view of the social condition of the manufacturing population of that district C. Cox, London, 1848

Barfoot, James Richard The Progress of Cotton: a Series of Twelve Engravings Darton, 1840 https://www.flickr.com/photos/manchesterarchiveplus/albums/72157629084961692

Barfoot, Peter The Universal British Directory of Trade, Commerce and Manufacture Champante y Whitrow, London, 5 vols., 1791

Baron Howard, Richard (Physician to the Ardwick and Ancoats Dispensary) An Inquiry into the Morbid Effects of Deficiency of Food; chiefly with reference to their occurrence amongst the destitute poor Simpkin, Marshall, & Co., London, 1839 (based on experiences in the depression in Manchester in 1838-1839)

Batchelor, Thomas (Farmer) Expense and Profit of Arable Land, in: Board of Agriculture, General View of the Agriculture of the County of Bedford, 1808, p. 70 et seq.

Beddoe, John On the Stature and Bulk of Man in the British Isles Reprinted from Vol. III of the Memoirs of the Anthropological Society of London Asher & Co., London, 1870 https://wellcomelibrary.org/item/b21445758

Billam, Francis T. A Walk through Leeds, or Stranger’s Guide to everything worth Notice, … J. H. Leach, Leeds, 1806

Bischoff, James A Comprehensive History of the Woollen and Worsted Manufactures: And the Natural and Commercial History of Sheep, from the Earliest Records to the Present Period (2 vols.) Smith, Elder and Co., London, 1842

Board of Agriculture General View of the Agriculture of … [a number of counties] First series, published 1794 Second series, published 1799-1814

Board of Agriculture Comparison of the Expenses of Arable Land in 1790 and 1804 Communications to the Board of Agriculture; on Subjects relative to the Husbandry and Internal Improvement of the Country, 1806, Vol. V, Part II, pp. 17-121

Board of Agriculture (Arthur Young, Sir John Sinclair) General Report on Enclosures B. McMillan, London, 1808

Board of Agriculture Agricultural State of the Kingdom, in February, March, and April, 1816; being the Substance of the Replies to a Circular Letter sent by the Board of Agriculture, to every Part of the Kingdom Sherwood, Nelly, and Grove, London, 1816

Board of Trade (ed. George R. Porter) Tables of the Revenue, Population, Commerce, &c. of the United Kingdom, and its Dependencies, 1833 London, His Majesty’s Stationery Office, 1834

Board of Trade Report on Wholesale and Retail Prices in the United Kingdom in 1902, with Comparative Statistical Series for a Number of Years Ordered, by the House of Commons, to be printed, 6th August, 1903 https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=osu.32435000683722;view=1up;seq=349

Booth, Charles Occupations of the People of the United Kingdom, 1801-1881 Journal of the Statistical Society of London, Vol. 49, No. 2 (June 1886), pp. 314-444 https://www.jstor.org/stable/2979155

Bowley, Arthur L. Wages in the United Kingdom in the Nineteenth Century Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1900 https://archive.org/stream/wagesinunitedkin00bowl#page/n5/mode/2up

Brereton, Rev. C. D. (Rector of Little Massingham, Norfolk) A Practical Enquiry into the Number, Means of Employment, and Wages of Agricultural Labourers J. Hatchard and Son, Norwich, 1824

Brereton, Rev. C. D. (Rector of Little Massingham, Norfolk) Observations on the Administration of the Poor Laws in Agricultural Districts J. Hatchard and Son, Norwich, 1826

British Association for the Advancement of Science Anthropometric Committee, Report Annual Meeting, 1879, pp. 176-209 Biodiversity Heritage Library

British Association for the Advancement of Science Anthropometric Committee, Final Report 1882-1883 https://galton.org/essays/1880-1889/galton-1883-rba-anthro-report-final.pdf

Brown, William Early Days in a Dundee Mill Extracts from the Diary of William Brown, an early Dundee spinner, edited by John Hume (includes: Information regarding Flax Spinning at Leeds, 1821) Dundee Abertay Historical Society, Publication Number 20 – 1980 https://abertay.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/early_days_in_a_dundee_mill.pdf

Buret, Eugène De la Misère des Classes Laborieuses en Angleterre et en France (2 Tomes) (On the Poverty of the Working Classes in England and in France) Chez Paulin, Paris, 1840

Butterworth, Edwin An Historical Account of the Towns of Ashton-under-Lyne, Stalybridge, and Dukinfield T. A. Phillips, Ashton, 1842

Butterworth, Edwin Historical Sketches of Oldham Published Oldham, 1856 Oldham Historical Research Group http://www.pixnet.co.uk/Oldham-hrg/miscellany/butterworth-history-Oldham/pages/001.html

Caird, James English Agriculture in 1850-51 Longman, Green, Brown, and Longmans, London, 1852 https://archive.org/details/englishagricult00cairgoog

Caird, James On the Agricultural Statistics of the United Kingdom Journal of the Statistical Society of London, Vol. 31, No. 2 (Jun., 1868), pp. 127-145 http://www.jstor.org/stable/2338858 On the Agricultural Statistics of the United Kingdom (Second Paper) Journal of the Statistical Society of London, Vol. 32, No. 1 (Mar., 1869), pp. 61-77 http://www.jstor.org/stable/23388877

Cargill, William Educational, Criminal, and Social Statistics of Newcastle-upon-Tyne Journal of the Statistical Society of London, Vol. 1, No.6 (Oct. 1838), pp. 355-361 https://www.jstor.org/stable/2337753

Carpenter, W. Machinery, as it affects the Industrial Classes The Farmer’s Magazine, Vol. 14, Jul. – Dec. 1846, pp. 536-554

Cave, Edward (“Sylvanus Urban”); and successors The Gentleman’s Magazine, and Monthly Intelligencer Volumes 50 (1780) to 118 (1815)  Edward Cave, London https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/006056643

Chadwick, David (City Treasurer of Salford)  On the Rate of Wages in Manchester and Salford, and the Manufacturing Districts of Lancashire, 1839-59 Journal of the Statistical Society of London, Volume 23, March 1860 https://archive.org/details/jstor-2338478

Chadwick, Edwin Report on the Sanitary Condition of the Labouring Population and on the Means of its Improvement London, May 1842 https://www.niph.go.jp/toshokan/koten/Britain/PDF/100716710001.pdf to: https://www.niph.go.jp/toshokan/koten/Britain/PDF/100716710011.pdf

Chadwick, Edwin On the best Mode of representing accurately by Statistical Returns, the Duration of Life, and the Pressure and Progress of the Causes of Mortality amongst different Classes of the Community, and amongst the Populations of different Districts and Countries Journal of the Statistical Society of London, Vol. VII, 1844, pp. 1-39

Cheshire, Edward (Assistant-Secretary) The Results of the Census of Great Britain in 1851, with a Description of the Machinery and Processes Employed to Obtain the Returns; also an Appendix of Tables of Reference Journal of the Statistical Society of London, Vol. 17, No. 1 (Mar. 1854), pp. 45-72 https://www.jstor.org/stable/2338356

Children’s Employment Commission  Second Report of the Commissioners, Trades and Manufactures Parliamentary Papers, House of Commons and Command, Volume 13 William Clowes and Sons, Printed for Her Majesty’s Stationery Office, London, 1843 https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/011641342

Children’s Employment Commission Appendix to the Second Report of the Commissioners, Trades and Manufactures, Part I, Reports and Evidence from Sub-Commissioners William Clowes and Sons, Printed for Her Majesty’s Stationery Office, London, 1842

Children’s Employment Commission  Appendix to the Second Report of the Commissioners, Trades and Manufactures, Part II, Reports and Evidence from Sub-Commissioners, 1842 William Clowes and Sons, Printed for Her Majesty’s Stationery Office, London, 1842

Cleland, John Enumeration of the Inhabitants of the City of Glasgow and County of Lanark, for the Government Census of M.DCCC.XXXI, with Population and Statistical Tables relative to England and Scotland John Smith & Son, Glasgow, 1832 https://archive.org/stream/enumerationofinh00clel#page/n5/mode/2up

Cobbett, William Rural Rides. In the Counties of Surrey, Kent, Sussex, Hampshire, Wiltshire, Gloucestershire, Herefordshire, Worcestershire, Somersetshire, Oxfordshire, Berkshire, Essex, Suffolk, Norfolk, and Hertfordshire, with: Economical and Political Observations relative to matters applicable to, and illustrated by, the State of those Counties respectively  Published by William Cobbett, London, 1830

Cobbett, William Cobbett’s Political Register Volume LXX, from July 3, to December 25, 1830 Printed and published by the Author, London, 1830 https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/006064081

Cobbett, William Too Hot Cobbett’s Political Register, Volume 53, January 15, 1825, p. 156

Cobbett, William Cottage Economy: containing Information relative to the brewing of Beer, making of Bread, keeping of Cows, Pigs, Bees, Ewes, Goats, Poultry, and Rabbits, … Published by the Author, London, 1822

Commissioners for Enquiring into the Condition of the Poorer Classes in Ireland, Third Report Report on the State of the Irish Poor in Great Britain Selection of Reports and Papers of the House of Commons: Vol. 48, Irish Poor, 1834 His Majesty’s Stationery Office, London, 1836

Commissioners for Inquiring into the State of Large Towns and Populous Districts  First and Second Reports, Appendix, Part I and Part II William Clowes and Sons, 1845

Committee of the Manchester Statistical Society on the State of Education in the Borough of Manchester in 1834 Report James Ridgway and Son, Manchester, 1835

Conference of Ministers of all Denominations Report of the … on the Corn Laws, held in Manchester, August 17th, 18th, 19th, and 20th, 1841 Documentary Evidence Published under the Auspices of the Committee, J. Gadsby, Manchester, 1841 https://archive.org/stream/reportconferenc00repogoog#page/n4/mode/2up

Corry, John The History of Macclesfield J. Ferguson, London, 1817

Cowan, Robert Vital Statistics of Glasgow, Illustrating the Sanatory Condition of the Population Journal of the Statistical Society of London, Vol. 3, No. 3 (Oct., 1840), pp. 257-292 http://www.jstor.org/stable/2337739

Creighton, Charles A History of Epidemics in Britain Volume II: From the Extinction of the Plague to the Present Time Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1894

Cuddon, Ambrose (publisher) A Representation of the Manufacture of Earthenware London, 1827

Danson, J. T. Statistical Observations relative to the Growth of the Human Body (Males) in Height and Weight, from Eighteen to Thirty Years of Age, as illustrated by the Records of the Borough Goal of Liverpool.  Journal of the Statistical Society of London, Vol. 25, 1862, pp. 20-26

Danson, J. T.; Welton, T. A. On the Population of Lancashire and Cheshire, and its Local Distribution during the Fifty Years 1801-1851 (Part Fourth, and Last) In: Transactions of the Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire, Volume XII, Session 1859-60, Adam Holden, Liverpool, 1860, pp. 35-74 https://www.hslc.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/12-3-Danson-and-Welton.pdf

Danton, J. T. A Contribution towards an Investigation of the Changes which have taken place in the Condition of the People of the United Kingdom during the eight Years extending from the Harvest of 1839 to the Harvest of 1847; and an Attempt to develop the Conexion (if any,) between the Changes observed and the Variations occurring during the same Period in the Prices of the most necessary Items of Food. Journal of the Statistical Society of London, Vol. XI No. 2, May 1848, pp. 101-140

Davies, David (Rector of Barkham, Berks.) The Case of Labourers in Husbandry: Stated and Considered, in Three Parts R. Cruttwell, Bath, 1795

Demainbray, Rev. Stephen The Poor Man’s Best Friend; or, Land to Cultivate for his Own Benefit: being the Results of Twenty-Four Years’ Experience, in a Letter to the Marques of Salisbury James Ridgway, London, 1831

Dempsey, John Dempsey’s People: A Folio of British Street Portraits, 1824-1844 Curated by John Hanson, National Portrait Gallery, Australia https://www.portrait.gov.au/exhibitions/dempseys-people-2017

Denton, John Bailey The Agricultural Labourer Stanford, London, 1868

Dodd, George The Food of London: The Food for a Community of Two Millions and a Half Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, London, 1856

Drummond, Henry (Preface) On the Condition of the Agricultural Classes of Great Britain and Ireland, with extracts from the Parliamentary Reports and Evidence from 1833 to 1840, Volume II John Murray, London, 1842

Eden, Sir Frederick Morton The State of the Poor: Or, An History of the Labouring Classes in England from the Conquest to the Present Period Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2011 (originally published 1797), 3 vols.

Edmonds, Richard A Statistical Account of the Parish of Madron, containing the Borough of Penzance, in Cornwall Journal of the Statistical Society of London, Vol II, 1839, p. 198

Edmonds, T. R. On the Mortality of the People of England The Lancet, Volume 24, Issue 614, June 06, 1835, pp. 310-316 https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(02)97790-1

Ellis, William The Country Housewife’s Family Companion James Hodges, London, 1750

Encyclopaedia Britannica: or, A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Miscellaneous Literature, Enlarged and Improved “Cotton Manufacture” Supplement to the fourth, fifth and sixth Editions, Volume Third Archibald Constable, Edinburgh, 1824

Engels, Friedrich Die Lage der arbeitenden Klasse in England Otto Wigand, Leipzig, 1845 The Condition of the Working Class of England 1844 Reprint of the translation to English, 1885, authorized by Engels George Allen & Unwin, London, 1885 http://www.gutenberg.org/files/17306/17306-h/17306-h.htm

English Charity (Poor Houses in Kent) The Quarterly Review, Vol. CVI, 1835 Article VIII, p. 473

Factories Inquiry Commission Second Report of the Central Board of His Majesty’s Commissioners appointed to collect Information in the Manufacturing Districts, as to the Employment of Children in Factories, and as to Propriety and Means of Curtailing the Hours of their Labour: with Minutes of Evidence and Reports by the Medical Commissioners (Reports from Commissioners, 1833. Six Volumes – Contents of the Fifth Volume) Ordered, by the House of Commons, to be Printed, 15 July 1833

Factories Inquiry Commission Supplementary Report of the Central Board of H. Maj. Commissioners Appointed to Collect Information in the Manufacturing Districts, as to the Employment of Children in Factories, and as to the Propriety and Means of Curtailing the Hours of Their Labour,  Part 1 and Part 2 Ordered to be Printed 25 March 1834

Farmer’s Magazine, The: A Periodical Work, exclusively devoted to Agriculture and Rural Affairs Archibald Constable and Co., Edinburgh Vol. 1 (1800) to Vol. 23 (1823) https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/007833353

Farr, Dr. William Causes of the High Mortality in Town Districts Fifth Annual Report of the Registrar-General on Births, Deaths, Marriages, 1841; pp. 406-437

Farr, William The Influence of Scarcities and of the High Prices of Wheat on the Mortality of the People of England Journal of the Statistical Society of London, Vol. 9, No. 2 (Jun., 1846), pp. 158-174 http://www.jstor.org/stable/2337834

Farr, William Vital Statistics: a Memorial Volume of Selections from the Reports and Writings of William Farr Sanitary Institute of Great Britain, London, 1885

Faucher, Léon Manchester in 1844: Its Present Condition and Future Prospects Simpkin, Marshall, London, 1844

Faucher, Léon Études sur l’Angleterre (Investigations about England) Guillaumin, Paris, 1845, 2 vols.

Felkin, William A History of the Machine-Wrought Hosiery and Lace Manufactures Longmans, Green and Co., London, 1867 https://archive.org/stream/historyofmachine00felkuoft#page/n7/mode/2up

Fielden, John The curse of the factory system, or, A short account of the origin of factory cruelties, of the attempts to protect the children by law, of their present sufferings, our duty towards them, the injustice of Mr. Thomson’s bill, the folly of the political economists, a warning against sending the children of the South into the factories of the North  Cobbett, London, 1836 https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=inu.30000041573936

Finch, John (the Younger, Merchant) Statistics of Vauxhall Ward, Liverpool; showing the actual condition of more than Five Thousand Families, Being the Result of an Inquiry recently instituted by the Liverpool Anti-Monopoly Association Joshua Walmesly, Liverpool, 1842

Friff, C. Bowles Report on the Condition of the Working Classes in Bristol Journal of the Statistical Society of London, Vol. II, 1839, pp. 368-375

Gavin, Hector, Dr. Sanitary Wanderings, being Sketches and Illustrations of Bethnal Green A Type of the Condition of the Metropolis and other Large Towns John Churchill, London, 1848

Giffen, Robert The Progress of the Working Classes in the last Half Century Inaugural Address of the President of the Statistical Society, 1883-84 Journal of the Statistical Society of London, Vol. 46, No. 4 (Dec., 1883), pp. 593-622 https://www.jstor.org/stable/2979307 Further Notes on the Progress of the Working Classes in the last Half Century Journal of the Statistical Society of London, Vol. 49, No.1 (Mar., 1886),  pp. 28-100 https://www.jstor.org/stable/2979227

Gilbert, James Gilbert’s Summary of the Occupations of the People of England, Wales and Scotland, from the Abstract of the Population Commissioners James Gilbert, London, 1844 https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/008896221

Godolphin Osborne, Lord Sidney A View of the Low Moral & Physical Condition of the Agricultural Labourer T & W Boone, London, 1844

Grey, Earl, unsigned letter to … England in 1830: being a Letter to the (late) Earl Grey, laying before him the Condition of the People, as described by themselves, in their Petitions to Parliament Simpkin, Marshall, and Co., London, 1847 (reprint of original of 1830)

Guy, Dr. William Augustus On the Health of Nightmen, Scavengers, and Dustmen Journal of the Statistical Society of London, Vol. XI, 1848, p. 72

“H” Of the Quantity of Bread-corn required yearly to maintain the Inhabitants of Great Britain The Farmer’s Magazine, Edinburgh, 1801, p. 132

Hansard Special Commissions – Amnesty House of Commons, 8 February 1831, Vol 2, cc 246-309 http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/commons/1831/feb/08/special-commissions-amnesty

Hansard’s Parliamentary Debates Distress of the Country House of Commons, 1 July 1842, pp. 861-936 https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1842/jul/01/distress-of-the-country House of Commons, 6 July 1842, pp. 1013-1085 https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1842/jul/06/distress-of-the-country-adjourned-debate House of Commons, 8 July 1842, pp. 1171-1236 https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1842/jul/08/distress-of-the-country

Hasbach, W. A History of the English Agricultural Labourer P. S. King & Son, Westminster, 1908 (original edition in German, 1894) https://archive.org/stream/historyofenglish00hasbrich#page/n7/mode/2up

Hatton, John A Lecture on the Sanitary Condition of Chorlton-upon-Medlock, Delivered at the Request of the Manchester and Salford Sanitary Association Beresford & Galt, Manchester, 1854 https://archive.org/stream/b22337489#page/n1/mode/2up

Hawkins, Francis Bisset Elements of Medical Statistics Gulstonian Lectures 1829

Henry, Thomas Observations on the Bills of Mortality for the Towns of Manchester and Salford Memoirs of the Literary and Philosophical Society of Manchester, Volume 3, 1790

Hindmarsh, L. On the State of Agriculture and Condition of the Agricultural Labourers of the Northern  Division of Northumberland Journal of the Statistical Society of London, Vol. 1, No. 7 (Nov., 1838), pp. 397-414 http://www.jstor.org/stable/2337770

His Majesty’s Commissioners Extracts from the Information received by … as to the Administration and Operation of the  Poor Laws See: Report from E. Chadwick, Esq., Assistant Commissioner, on London and Berkshire His Majesty’s Stationery Office, 1837

His Majesty’s Commissioners for Inquiring into the Administration and Practical Operation of the Poor Laws Report Rural Queries, session 1834, vols. xxix-xxxiv

Holland, G. Calvert The Vital Statistics of Sheffield Robert Tyes, London, 1843

Holyoake, George Jacob Self-Help by the People: The History of the Rochdale Pioneers Swan Sonnenschein & Co., London, first published 1893 (first twelve chapters printed in the Daily News in 1857)

House of Commons Abstract of the Answers and Returns made pursuant to an Act, passed in the Forty-first Year of His Majesty King George III, intituled, “An Act for taking an Account of the Population of Great Britain, and the Increase or Diminution thereof” Enumeration, Part I, England and Wales Ordered to be printed, 21st December 1801

House of Commons Abstract of the Answers and Returns made pursuant to an Act, passed in the Forty-first Year of His Majesty King George III, intituled, “An Act for taking an Account of the Population of Great Britain, and the Increase or Diminution thereof” Preliminary Observations Enumeration Abstract Parish-Register Abstract, 1811 Ordered, by the House of Commons, to be printed, 2 July 1811

House of Commons Abstract of the Answers and Returns, made pursuant to an Act, passed in the Eleventh Year of the Reign of His Majesty King George IV, intutiled, “An Act for taking Account of the Population of Great Britain, and of the Increase or Diminution thereof” Preliminary Observations, 1811 and 1821 Enumeration Abstract, 1821 Parish-Register Abstract, 1821 Ordered to be printed, by the House of Commons, 10th July 1822

House of Commons Abstract of the Answers and Returns, made pursuant to an Act, passed in the Eleventh Year of the Reign of His Majesty King George IV, intutiled, “An Act for taking Account of the Population of Great Britain, and of the Increase or Diminution thereof” Volume 3, Parish Register Abstract, 1831 Ordered to be printed, by the House of Commons, 2 April 1833

House of Commons Abstract of the Answers and Returns made pursuant to an Act, passed in the 43rd Year of His Majesty King George III, intituled “An Act for Procuring Returns relative to the Expence and Maintenance of the Poor in England”[1802-03] Ordered by the House of Commons to be Printed, 10th July 1804

House of Commons An Abstract of the Evidence lately taken in the ….. against the Orders in Council, being a Summary of the Facts there proved, respecting the Present State of the Commerce and the Manufactures of the Country J. M. McCreery, London, 1812 https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=aeu.ark:/13960/t7fr0g619;view=1up;seq=6;size=75

House of Lords An Account of the Cotton and Woollen Mills and Factories in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland whereof Entry has been made at the Epiphany Sessions in Every Year from the Year 1803 to the Last Year …. Appendix: Copies of Reports made by Visitors ….  [Reports of the Visitors to the Mills, from 1803 to 1817, as appointed by the Act of 1802]

House of Lords Reasons in Favour of Sir Robert Peel’s Bill for ameliorating the Condition of Children employed in Cotton Factories W. Clowes, London, 1819  Observations, &c., as to the Ages of Persons employed in the Cotton Mills, in Manchester, with Extracts of Evidence against Sir Robert Peel’s Bill, taken before the Lord’s Committee J. Gleave, Manchester, 1819  Answers to Certain Objections made to Sir Robert Peel’s Bill, for ameliorating the Condition of Children employed in Cotton Factories Printed by R. and W. Dean, Manchester, 1819

House of Lords The Sessional Papers 1801–1833, Vol. 156 (1823) Evidence on Silk Manufacturers Bill  Printed by Order

House of Lords Minutes of Evidence taken before the Select Committee of the House of Lords appointed to consider of Poor Laws Ordered to be printed, 7th December 1830

House of Lords Sessional Papers, in the Session 1840, Vol. XXXVII  Reports from Commissioners, Subject of this Volume: Hand-Loom Weavers Printed by Order, 1840

House of Lords Sessional Papers, in the Session 1845, Vol. XXIII Report of the Commissioner appointed to enquire into the Condition of the Frame-Work Knitters Printed by Order, 1845

Hunter, Julian, Dr. Report of Dr. Julian Hunter on the Housing of the Poorer Parts of the Population in Towns, particularly in regards to the Existence of Dangerous Degrees of Overcrowding and the Use of Dwellings unfit for Human Habitation Eighth Annual Report of the Medical Officer of the Privy Council, Dr. John Simon, 1865

Inspectors of Factories Reports, for the Half-Year ending 31stOctober 1848 Appendix, Evidence of the Opinions of Persons employed in Factories respecting the Ten-hours’ Act, collected in September, October, and November, 1848, by Mr. Horner and the five Sub-Inspectors in his District Her Majesty’s Stationery Office, London, 1849

James, John History of the Worsted Manufacture in England, from the earliest times Longman, London, 1857 https://archive.org/stream/historyofworsted00jame#page/n5/mode/2up

Johns, William (Superintendent-Registrar) Report upon the Working of the Registration and Marriage Acts, during the Two Years 1837-38 and 1838-39, in the Registration District of Manchester Journal of the Statistical Society of London, Volume 3, No. 2, 1840, p. 191 https://www.jstor.org/stable/2337734

Kay, James Phillips The Moral and Physical Condition of the Working Classes employed in the Cotton Manufacture of Manchester James Ridgway, London, 1832 https://archive.org/stream/moralphysicalcon00kaysuoft#page/n3/mode/2up

Kaye, T.  The Stranger in Liverpool; or, an Historical and Descriptive View of the Town of Liverpool and its Environs T. Kaye, Liverpool, Seventh Edition, 1823

Kennedy, John Observations on the Rise and Progress of the Cotton Trade, in Great Britain, particularly in Manchester and the adjoining counties An Inquiry into the Effects produced upon Society by the Poor Laws Memoirs of the Literary and Philosophical Society of Manchester, Volume III, pp. 115-138 resp. pp. 430-445 George Wilson, London, 1819

Kennedy, John Observations on the Influence of Machinery upon the Working Classes of the Community Memoirs of the Literary and Philosophical Society of Manchester, Second Series,  Volume V, pp. 25-35 Baldwin & Craddock, London, 1831

Knight, Charles The Results of Machinery, namely, Cheap Production, and Increased Employment, …. Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge London, 1831

Knight, Charles Days at the Factories The Penny Magazine of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, Vol. XI Charles Knight & Co., London, 1842 Soap and candle making, p. 41 Gas, p. 81 Church clocks and bells, p. 121 Pianofortes, p. 169 Leather, p. 209 Copper and lead manufactures, p. 249 Distilling, p. 297 Manufacture of floor-cloth, p. 337 Book-binding, p. 377 Vinegar and British wine, p. 425 Rope and sail-cloth, p. 465 Blacking, p. 509

Knight, Charles Days at the Factories The Penny Magazine of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, Vol. XII Charles Knight & Co., London, 1843 Needle-mills, p. 43 Porcelain-works, p. 73 Lace, p. 113 Silk, p. 161 Potteries, p. 201 Cotton, p. 241 Print-works, p. 289 Carpets, p. 329 Steam-boat, p. 377 Alum-works, p. 421 Woollen, p. 457 Flax, p. 501

Knight, Charles Days at the Factories The Penny Magazine of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, Vol. XIII Charles Knight & Co., London, 1844 Yorkshire worsted factories, p. 33 Butterley iron-works, p. 73 Fitzalan steel and file works, Sheffield, p. 121 Sheffield cutlery works, p. 161 Felling chemical works, p. 201 Glass factory, p. 249 Barrowfield dye-works, Glasgow, p. 289 Tyne factories – white and red lead and shot, p. 337 Sopwith’s cabinet manufactory, p. 342 Potteries, p. 344 Stephenson’s locomotive factory, p. 377 The Walker oil-mill, p. 380 Starch factory, p. 383 Electro-plate factory, p. 417 Birmingham factories, p. 465, p. 501

Knight, Charles Relative Progress of the Population and of Industrial Wealth The British Almanac, Volume 22, 1849, Companion to the Almanac, p. 79 Charles Knight, London, 1849

Knight, Charles Passages of a Working Life during Half a Century Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, reprinted 2014, first publication 1873

Knott, Squire The Oldham Panorama (photographs), 1876 Gallery Oldham https://www.galleryoldham.org.uk

Kohl, Johann Georg England, Wales and Scotland Chapman and Hall, London, 1844

Le Play, Frédéric Les Ouvriers Européens: Études sur les Travaux, la Vie Domestique et la Condition Morale des Populations Ouvrières de l’Europe, … Ouvriers de l’Angleterre, pp. 188-211 (The European Workers: Studies on the Work, the Family Life and the Moral Condition of the Worker Populations of Europe, …) English Workers, pp. 188-211 L’Imprimerie Impériale, Paris, 1855 https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k1057844n.texteImage

Levi, Leone Wages and Earnings of the Working Classes; with some facts illustrative of their economic condition, drawn from authentic and official sources John Murray, London, 1867 https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/011631933

Lillie Craik, George; MacFarlane, Charles The Pictorial History of England, Volume IV, 1688-1760 Charles Knight & Co., London, 1841 Chap. IV, History of the National Industry Chap. VII, History of the Condition of the People The Pictorial History of England, Volume V, 1760-1784 Charles Knight & Co., London, 1841 Chap. IV, History of the National Industry Chap. VII, History of the Condition of the People The Pictorial History of England, Volume VI, 1783-1792 Charles Knight & Co., London, 1842 Chap. IV, History of the National Industry Chap. VII, History of the Condition of the People The Pictorial History of England, Volume VII, 1792-1802 Charles Knight & Co., London, 1842 Chap. IV, History of the National Industry Chap. VII, History of the Condition of the People The Pictorial History of England, Volume VIII, 1802-1820 Charles Knight & Co., London, 1842 Chap. IV, History of the National Industry Chap. VII, History of the Condition of the People

Logan, William (City Missionary) An Exposure from Personal Observation of Female Prostitution in London, Leeds and Rochdale and especially in the City of Glasgow G. Gallie and R. Fleckfield, Glasgow, 1843

“London Commissariat” Quarterly Review, October 1854, Vol. 95, pp. 271-308

Lords Committees, to whom was referred the Bill intituled “An Act to amend and extend an Act made in the Forty-Second Year of his present Majesty, for the Preservation of the Health and Morals of Apprentices, and others, employed in Cotton and other Mills, and Cotton and other Factories» Minutes of Evidence House of Lords, The Sessional Papers, 1801-1833, Vol. 96 (1818) Ordered to be Printed, 23d May 1818

Lords Committees, appointed to Enquire into the State and Condition of the Children employed in the Cotton Manufactories of the United Kingdom; and also to Enquire into the Execution of the Laws now existing for their Protection, and to Report thereupon Minutes of Evidence Appendices House of Lords, The Sessional Papers, 1801-1833, Vol. 110 (1819) Ordered to be Printed, 8th March 1819

Love, Benjamin  Manchester as it is Love and Barton, London, 1839

Love, Benjamin Hand-Book of Manchester Love and Barton, London, 1842 (The 1842 edition reports on the very bad situation of the factory workers, worse than in the edition of 1839, and which was due to the harsh recession of 1839-1842)

Malthus, Thomas Robert An Investigation of the Cause of the present High Price of Provisions J. Johnson, London, 1800

Manchester Statistical Society Analysis of the Evidence taken before the Factory Commissioners, as far as it relates to the Population of Manchester, and the Vicinity, engaged in the Cotton Trade Read before the Statistical Society of Manchester, March, 1834 Bancks and Company, Manchester, 1834

Manchester Statistical Society Analysis of the Report of an Agent employed by the Manchester Statistical Society in 1834 to visit the Dwellings and ascertain the Condition of the Working Population in Police Division No. 2, and in the first Subdivision of Police Division No. 1, in the Town of Manchester Report of the Fourth Meeting of British Association for the Advancement of Science, held at Edinburgh in 1834, p. 690 John Murray, London, 1835

“Mark Lane” The Price of a Quartern Loaf Journal of the Statistical Society of London, Vol. 26, No. 4, (Dec. 1863), Miscellanea, pp. 451-459 https://www.jstor.org/stable/2338440

Marshall, John Mortality of the Metropolis: A Statistical View of the Number of Persons Reported to Have Died Truettel, Würtz, and Richter, London, 1832

Mather, Ralph An Impartial Representation of the Case of the Poor Cotton Spinners in Lancashire G. Bigg, London, 1780

Mayhew, Henry London Labour and the London Poor: A Cyclopædia of the Condition and Earnings of Those That Will Work, Those That Cannot Work, and Those That Will Not Work  Griffin, Bohn, and Company, London, 1851/1861 https://archive.org/stream/cu31924092592751 https://archive.org/stream/cu31924092592769 https://archive.org/stream/cu31924092592785 https://archive.org/stream/cu31924092592793

Mayhew, Henry The Morning Chronicle: Labour and the Poor, 1849-50 Letters I to LXIII Victorian London Web http://www.victorianlondon.org/mayhew/mayhew01.htm to http://www.victorianlondon.org/mayhew/mayhew63.htm

McCulloch, J. R. A Dictionary Practical, Theoretical, and Historical of Commerce and Commercial Navigation Article “Prices”, pp. 1138-1140 An Account of the Contract Prices of the following Articles of Provisions &c. at the Royal Hospital, Greenwich, for the Years undermentioned New Edition, Revised and Corrected, Longmans, Green, and Co., London 1880

Meidinger, Heinrich Reisen durch Grossbritannien und Irland (Travels through Great Britain and Ireland) Heinrich Ludwig Brönner, Frankfurt am Main, 1829

Metropolitan Registrars Metropolitan Registrars‘ Returns of the Sanatory Condition of their Districts Fifth Annual Report of the Registar-General of Births, Deaths, and Marriages, 1841, pp. 473-601; map of Registrars‘ Districts, after p. 472; Mortality in the Sub-Districts, pp. 470-472

Molesworth, Rev. W. N. (incumbent at Rochdale) On the Extent and Results of Co-operative Trading Associations at Rochdale Journal of the Statistical Society of London, Vol. XXIV, 1861, p. 507

Neison, F. G. P. On a Method recently proposed for conducting Inquiries into the Comparative Sanatory Condition of various Districts, with Illustrations, derived from numerous Places in Great Britain at the Period of the last Census Statistical Society of London, Vol. VII, 1844, pp. 40-68

Nemnich, Philipp Andreas Beschreibung einer im Sommer 1799 von Hamburg nach und durch England geschehenen Reise  (Description of a Journey from Hamburg to, and through, England, in the Summer of 1799) J. G. Cotta’sche Buchhandlung, Tübingen, 1800

Nemnich, Philipp Andreas Neueste Reise durch England, Schottland und Ireland, hauptsächlich in Bezug auf Produkte, Fabrike und Handlung (A Recent Journey through England, Scotland and Ireland, especially referring to Products, Factories, and Management) J. G. Cotta’sche Buchhandlung, Tübingen, 1807

Nicholson, John The Operative Mechanic and British Machinist, being a Practical Display of the Manufactories and Mechanical Arts of the United Kingdom Knight and Lacey, London, 1825

Nield, Wm. (Mayor of Manchester) Comparative Statement of the Income and Expenditure of certain Families of the Working Classes in Manchester and Dukinfield, in the Years 1836 and 1841 Journal of the Statistical Society of London, Volume 4, 1841, p. 320

Norton, Charles Eliot The Poverty of England North American Review, Vol. 109, No. 224 (July 1869), pp. 122-154 https://www.jstor.org/stable/25109485

Orange, James (Minister of the Gospel) History and Antiquities of Nottingham, Books XIII and XIV Hamilton, Adams, and Co., London, 1840

Ordnance Survey Maps, 1844-1847, six inches to the mile, Lancashire series National Library of Scotland https://maps.nls.uk/os/6inch-england-and-wales/lancashire.html

Overseers of the Parish of Lindfield, Sussex Sums paid to the Paupers of Lindfield, for the Year ending Lady-Day, 1831 Printed at the Schools of Industry, Lindfield, 1831

Parish Clerks of Liverpool General Bills of Mortality, 1802-1826

Percival, Thomas Observations on the State of Population in Manchester and other adjacent Places Essays Medical, Philosophical and Experimental, Vol. II, Part III, pp. 1-67 J. Johnson, London, 1789

Phillips, Richard The Book of English Trades: And Library of the Useful Arts: with Seventy Engravings G. Sidney, London, 1818

Pigot and Co. National Commercial Directory for 1828-9 J. Pigot & Co., London, 1829

Pigot and Slater Commercial Directory of Manchester, 1841 Pigot and Slater, 1841

Pitt, William (not the Prime Minister!)  Communications to the Board of Agriculture, on Subjects Relative to the Husbandry and Internal Improvement of the Country, Vol. V, Part I, An Essay on the Production and Consumption of Corn in Great Britain; its Population at different Periods; the Means of increasing Human Subsistence; and of preventing future Scarcities  1806, Vol. V, Part I, Art. 1, p. 272 et seq.

Playfair, William A Letter on our Agricultural Distresses, their Causes and Remedies; accompanied with  Tables and Copper-Plate Charts, shewing and comparing The Prices of Wheat, Bread, and Labour, from 1565 to 1821 William Sams, London, 1822 (third edition)

Poor Law Commissioners Local Reports on the Sanitary Condition of the Labouring Population of England Presented to both Houses of Parliament, by Command of her Majesty, July 1842

Poor Law Commissioners Local Reports on the Sanitary Condition of the Labouring Population of Scotland Presented to both Houses of Parliament, by Command of her Majesty, July 1842

Poor Law Commissioners Reports of Special Assistant Poor Law Commissioners on the Employment of Women and  Children in Agriculture Her Majesty’s Stationery Office, 1843 https://archive.org/stream/b2874262x#page/n3/mode/2up

Porter, George Richardson Wages and Prices Companion to the Almanac, Charles Knight, London, 1834 https://www.jstor.org/stable/1973462

Porter, George Richardson An Examination of some Facts obtained at the recent Enumeration of the Inhabitants of Great Britain, …. [Comparison of the Censuses of 1821 and 1841] Quarterly Journal of the Statistical Society of London, February 1843, pp. 1-16

Porter, George Richardson The Progress of the Nation: In Its Various Social and Economic Relations, from the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century to the Present Time Sections I and II, Population and Production Charles Knight & Co., London, 1836              https://archive.org/stream/progressnation03portgoog#page/n4/mode/2up

Porter, George Richardson The Progress of the Nation: In Its Various Social and Economic Relations, from the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century to the Present Time Sections III and IV, Interchange, and Revenue and Expenditure Charles Knight & Co., London, 1838 https://archive.org/stream/progressnation01portgoog#page/n6/mode/2up

Porter, George Richardson The Progress of the Nation: In Its Various Social and Economic Relations, from the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century John Murray, London, 1851 https://archive.org/details/progressofnation00portuoft

Porter, George Richardson On the self-imposed Taxation of the Working Classes in the United Kingdom Read before the Statistical Section of the British Association, August 1850 https://www.jstor.org/stable/2338374

Porter, George Richardson On the Accumulation of Capital by the Different Classes of Society Journal of the Statistical Society of London, Vol. 14, No. 3 (Sept. 1851), pp. 193-199 https://www.jstor.org/stable/2338335

Price, Richard Observations on Reversionary Payments: … Essay I, Observations on the Expectations of Lives; … Essay IV, On the proper Method of constructing Tables for determining the Rate of Human Mortality, … T. Cadell, London, Fourth Edition, 1783

Purdy, Frederick (Principal of the Statistical Section, Poor Law Board, London) On the Earnings of Agricultural Labourers in England and Wales, 1860 Journal of the Statistical Society, Vol. 24, No. 3 (Sep. 1861) http://www.jstor.org/stable/2338485

Purdy, Frederick (Principal of the Statistical Section, Poor Law Board, London) On the Earnings of Agricultural Labourers in Scotland and Ireland, 1860 Journal of the Statistical Society, Vol. 25, No. 4 (Dec. 1862) http://www.jstor.org/stable/2338598

Radcliffe, William Origin of the New System of Manufacture; commonly called “Power-Loom Weaving”, and  the Purposes for which this System was invented and brought into Use, …. James Lomax, Stockport, 1828

Rashleigh, William, M. P. Stubborn Facts from the Factories, by a Manchester Operative, published and dedicated to the Working Classes John Ollivier, London, 1844

Raynbird, Hugh On Measure Work Journal of the Royal Agricultural Society of England, Vol. 7, 1846, pp. 120-142

Raynbird, William; Raynbird, Hugh On the Agriculture of Suffolk Longman and Co., London, 1849

Registrar-General of Great Britain Annual Report of the Registrar General of Births, Deaths, and Marriages in England,  Volume 3, Occupation Abstract W. Clowes and Sons, for Her Majesty’s Stationery Office, London, 1841 http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/census/table/GB1841OCC_M[1]

Registrar-General of Great Britain Annual Report of Births, Deaths, and Marriages; First (1837) to Twenty-Third (1860) Her Majesty’s Stationery Office

Registrar-General of Great Britain The Census of Great Britain in 1851; comprising an account of the numbers and distribution of the people, their ages, conjugal condition, occupations, and birthplace; Occupations of the People, Table XXXIII, Occupations of the People of Great Britain in 1851, arranged in Alphabetical Order, p. 125 Longman, Brown, Green and Longman’s, London, 1854 https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.32044106490006;view=1up;seq=4

Registrar-General of Great Britain Census of England and Wales for the Year 1861, Population Tables: Ages, Civil Condition, Occupations and Birth-Places of the People Her Majesty’s Stationery Office Census 1861 – Summary Tables, Occupations of the People, Table XVII, England and Wales, – Occupations of the People, arranged in alphabetical order, pp. xxxi-xxxix

Rickman, John (Clerk of the House of Commons) Abstract of the Answers and Returns, made pursuant to an Act, passed in the First Year of the Reign of His Majesty King George IV, intutiled “an Act for taking an Account of the  Population of Great Britain, and the Increase and Decrease thereof” Ordered, by the House of Commons, to be Printed, 2 July 1822 https://archive.org/stream/abstractofanswer00grea#page/n5/mode/2up

Roberton [sic], John Observations on the Mortality and Physical Management of Children Longman et al., London, 1827

Roberts, Charles The Physical Requirements of Factory Children Journal of the Statistical Society of London, Vol. 39, No. 4 (Dec. 1876), pp. 681-733 https://www.jstor.com/stable/2339159

Rowbottom, William (hand-loom weaver) Chronology or Annals of Oldham, Diary 1787-1830 As serialised in the “Oldham Standard”, January 4th, 1887, to March 3rd, 1889, and edited by Samuel Andrew Published in Internet by the Oldham Historical Research Group http://www.pixnet.co.uk/Oldham-hrg/archives/rowbottom/pages/001-intro.html

Rundell, María Eliza A New System of Practical Domestic Economy: Founded on Modern Discoveries, and the Private Communications of Persons of Experience A New Edition, revised and enlarged, with Estimates of Household Expenses, adapted to Families of Every Description (see p. 387 et seq.) Henry Colburn, London, 1827

Sadler, Michael Thomas Factory Statistics: The Official Tables appended to the Report of the Select Committee on  the Ten Hour Factory Bill J. Hatchard and Son, London, 1836

Scott, Fred The Condition and Occupations of the People of Manchester and Salford Manchester Statistical Society, read May 8th 1882, pp. 93-116

Scriven, Samuel Report to Her Majesties Commissioners on the Employment of Children and Young Persons in the District of the Staffordshire Potteries; and on the actual State, Condition, and Treatment of such Children and Young Persons House of Commons, Children’s Employment Commission, 1841

Secretary of the Board of Trade Returns of Wages, Published between 1830 and 1886 Her Majesty’s Stationery Office, London, 1887 https://archive.org/stream/cu31924062345321#page/n107/mode/2up

Secretary of the Treasury, United States of America Cotton: Cultivation, Manufacture and Foreign Trade of …. Doc. No. 146, March 4, 1836 Pamphlets on Wool, Cotton, etc., 1836

Select Committee to whom the Several Petitions complaining of the Depressed State of the Agriculture of the United Kingdom were referred Minutes of Evidence taken before the ….. Ordered, by the House of Commons, to be printed, 18 June 1821

Select Committee on Labourers’ Wages Report of the …. Ordered, by the House of Commons, to be printed, 4 June 1824 https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/008597317

Select Committee of the House of Commons appointed in the Session of 1837, to inquire into the Administration of the Relief of the Poor, under the Orders and Regulations issued by the Commissioners appointed under the Provisions of the Poor Law Amendment Act  The Parish and the Union: or, the Poor and the Poor Laws under the Old System and the New: being an Analysis of the Evidence contained in the Twenty-Two Reports Charles Knight and Co., London, 1837

Select Committee on Agriculture: House of Commons With the Minutes of Evidence Taken Before Them and an Appendix and Index:  Ordered to be Printed 28 Aug. 1833

Select Committee on Artizans and Machinery First, Second, Third, Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Reports Ordered, by the House of Commons, to be Printed, 1824

Select Committee on Education in England and Wales Report, together with Minutes of Evidence, Appendix, and Index See: Evidence of Mr. Francis Place, p. 47 and pp. 67-90 Ordered, by the House of Commons, to be Printed, 3 August 1835

Select Committee on Hand-Loom Weavers’ Petitions: House of Commons Report, with the Minutes of Evidence, and Index Ordered, by the House of Commons, to be Printed, 4 August 1834 https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/100660422

Select Committee on Hand-Loom Weavers’ Petitions: House of Commons Report, with the Minutes of Evidence, and Index Reports from Committees, Hand-Loom Weavers, Session 19 February – 10 September 1835, Vol. XIII Ordered, by the House of Commons, to be Printed, 1 July 1835

Select Committees on Hand-Loom Weavers’ Petitions (1834-1835) Analysis of the Evidence taken before … Ordered, by the House of Commons, to be Printed, 10 August 1835 https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/008559600

Select Committee on Labourers’ Wages Report Ordered, by the House of Commons, to be Printed, 4 June 1824

Select Committee on Manufactures, Commerce, and Shipping Report, with the Minutes of Evidence, and Appendix and Index Ordered, by the House of Commons, to be Printed, 19 August 1833

Select Committee on National Monuments and Works of Art Report, with the Minutes of Evidence, and Appendix Reports from Committees, Volume 6 Ordered, by the House of Commons, to be Printed, 16 June 1841

Select Committee on Public Libraries Report, together with the Proceedings of the Committee, Minutes of Evidence, and Appendix Ordered, by the House of Commons, to be Printed, 23 July 1849

Select Committee on the Silk Trade  The Minutes of Evidence, and Appendix, and Index Ordered, by the House of Commons to be Printed, 2 August 1832

Select Committee on that Part of the Poor Laws relating to the Employment or Relief of able-bodied Persons from the Poor Rate Report Ordered, by the House of Commons, to be Printed, 3 July 1828

Select Committee of the House of Lords appointed to consider of the State of the Poor Laws (1830 & 1831) Report, with Minutes of Evidence, Appendices, and Index In: Selection of Reports and Papers of the House of Commons, Poor (1), Volume 39 Ordered, by the House of Commons, to be Printed, 2 September 1831

Select Committee of the House of Commons on the Poor Law Amendment Act First to Eleventh Reports, with Minutes of Evidence The Sessional Papers of the House of Lords, Session 1837, Vol. XXXII, Poor Law Amendment, Part I Twelfth to Twenty-Second Reports, with Minutes of Evidence, and Appendix The Sessional Papers of the House of Lords, Session 1837, Vol. XXXIII, Poor Law Amendment, Part II

Select Committee on the State of the Children employed in the Manufactories of the United Kingdom, 25 April – 18 June 1816 Report of the Minutes of Evidence Reports from Committees, Session 1 February – 2 July 1816, Volume III Ordered, by the House of Commons, to be Printed, 28 May & 19 June 1816

Shaw, Charles When I was a Child: Growing Up in the Potteries in the 1840’s Originally published as anonymous articles in the Staffordshire Sentinel, 1893 Guidemark Publishing Ltd, London, 2013 www.thepotteries.org/focus/011.htm

Shaw, Simeon History of the Staffordshire Potteries; and the Rise and Progress of the Manufacture of Pottery and Porcelain First published, Hanley, 1829; Reissued, Scott, Greenwood & Co., London, 1900

Shuttleworth, John Vital Statistics of the Spinners and Piecers employed in the Fine Spinning Mills of Manchester Journal of the Statistical Society of London, Vol. 5, No. 3 (Oct. 1842), pp. 268-273

Slugg, J. T. Reminiscences of Manchester Fifty Years Ago J. E. Cornish, Manchester, 1881

Smith, Charles Three Tracts on the Corn-trade and Corn-laws Printed for the Author, London, 1758

Smith, Dr. Edward On the Food of the Poorer Labouring Classes In: Sixth Report of the Medical Officer of the Privy Council House of Commons, 1864, Appendix 6, p. 219 et seq.

Smith, Dr. Edward Dietaries for the Inmates of Workhouses: Report to the President of the Poor Law Board Her Majesty’s Stationery Office, London, 1866

Society for Improving the Condition of the Labouring Classes, London The Labourers’ Friend: A Selection from the Publications of the Labourers’ Friend Society, Showing the Utility and National Advantage of Allotting Land for Cottage Husbandry Published for the Society, London, 1835

Statistical Committee appointed by the Anti-Corn Law Conference Report Charles Fox, London, 1842

Statistical Committee of the Town Council, Leeds Report on the Condition of the Town of Leeds and of its Inhabitants, October 1839 Journal of the Statistical Society of London, Jan. 1840, Vol. 2, No. 6, pp. 397-424 http://www.jstor.org/stable/2338052

Statistical Society of London Report to the Statistical Society of London from a Committee of its Fellows appointed to  make an Investigation into the State of the Poorer Classes in St. George’s in the East Journal of the Statistical Society of London, Vol. 11, No. 3 (Aug. 1848), pp. 193-249 https://www.jstor.org/stable/2337956

Steel. Samuel H. A Report on the Sanitary Situation of the Town of Abergavenny, 1847, with Remedial Suggestions Extract in: Mongenes, Monmouth Genealogy, Sanitation in Abergavenny in the 19th Century http://mongenes.org.uk/Epidemics%20%26%20Sanitation/epidemicsandsani.html

Strang, John The Sewing Machine in Glasgow, and its Effects on Production, Prices, and Wages Journal of the Statistical Society of London, Vol. XXI, 1858, p. 464

Strang, John (City Chamberlain of Glasgow) Report on the Vital, Social and Economic Statistics of Glasgow for 1861 James McNab, Glasgow, 1862

Symonds, Jelinger C. (One of the Assistant Commissioners on the Hand-Loom Inquiry) Arts and Artisans at Home and Abroad: with Sketches of the Progress of Foreign Manufacturers William Tait, Edinburgh, 1839

Thackrah, C. Turner The Effects of Arts, Trades, and Professions, and of Civic States, and Habits of Living on Health and Longevity  Longman, London, Second Edition, Greatly Enlarged, 1832

Timmins, Samuel (ed.) The Resources, Products and Industrial History of Birmingham and the Midland Hardware District A series of reports collected by the Local Industries Committee of the British Association at Birmingham, in 1865 Robert Hardwicke, London, 1866 https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_S_w9AAAAcAAJ

Timperley, Charles Henry Annals of Manchester; biographical, historical, ecclesiastical, commercial, from the earliest period to the close of 1839 Bancks and Co., Manchester, 1839

Tooke, Thomas Thoughts and Details on the High and Low Prices of the Last Thirty Years (Four Parts) John Murray, London, 1823 https://archive.org/details/thoughtsdetailso00took

Tooke, Thomas A History of Prices and of the State of the Circulation from 1793 to 1837 (2 vols.) Longman, London, 1838 https://archive.org/details/historyofprices01took https://archive.org/details/historyofpriceso02tookuoft

Tooke, Thomas A History of Prices and of the State of the Circulation in 1838 and 1839 Longman, London, 1840 https://archive.org/details/historyofpriceso03tookuoft

Tooke, Thomas A History of Prices and of the State of the Circulation from 1839 to 1847 Longman, London, 1848 https://archive.org/details/historyofpriceso04tookuoft

Tooke, Thomas A History of Prices and of the State of the Circulation during the Nine Years 1848-1856,(2 vols.) Longman, London, 1857 https://archive.org/details/historyofpriceso05tookuoft https://archive.org/details/historyofpriceso06tookuoft

Toynbee, Arnold Lectures on the Industrial Revolution of the 18th Century in England Longmans, Green and Co., London, 1894 https://archive.org/stream/LecturesOnTheIndustrialRevolutionOfThe18thCenturyInEngland/Lec.OnTheIndus.Rev._Toynbee_390pgs52872621#page/n3/mode/2up

Tremenheere, Henry Agricultural and Educational Statistics of Several Parishes in the County of Middlesex Journal of the Statistical Society of London, Vol. 6, No. 2 (May, 1843), pp. 120-130 https://www.jstor.org/stable/2337867

Tufnell, E. Carleton Report on the Condition of the Agricultural Population in the West of England Twelfth Annual Report of the Poor Law Commissioners, 1846, pp. 123-138 W. Clowes and Sons, London, 1846

Tulloch, Alexander Murray, Major-General Sir On the Pay and Income of the British Soldier, as compared with the Rate of Agricultural Wages Journal of the Statistical Society of London, Vol. 26, No. 2 (June 1863), pp. 168-185 https://www.jstor.org/stable/2338458

Ure, Andrew The Philosophy of Manufactures: or, An Exposition of the Scientific, Moral, and Commercial Economy of the Factory System of Great Britain Charles Knight, London, 1835

Villermé, Louis René Tableau de l’État Physique et Morale des Ouvriers employés dans les manufactures de Coton, de Laine y de Soie Jules Renouard et Cie., Paris, 1840 (2 Tomes) (Report on the Physical and Moral Condition of the Workers in the Cotton, Wool, and Silk Manufactures)  https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k6503b.pdf

Von Raumer, Friedrich  England in 1835: a series of letters written to friends in Germany during a residence in London and excursions into the provinces (3 vols.) John Murray, London, 1836

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Watt, Alexander The Vital Statistics of Glasgow for 1834 & 1844 David Robertson, Glasgow, 1846

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Webb, Sidney Labour in the Longest Reign, 1837-1897 Issued under the Auspices of the Fabian Society Grant Richards, London, 1897

Webb, Sidney; Webb, Beatrice The History of Trade Unionism Longmans, Green and Co., London, 1894

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Weerth, Georg Skizzen aus dem sozialen und politischen Leben der Briten, 1843-1848 (Sketches of the social and political life of the British, 1843-1848) http://gutenberg.spiegel.de/buch/skizzen-aus-dem-sozialen-und-politischen-leben-der-briten-5551/8

Wheeler, James Manchester, its Political, Social and Commercial History, Ancient and Modern London, Whittaker and Co., 1836

Whittaker, Treacher; Arnot, Ave-Maria-Lane A Plain Statement of the Case of the Labourer, for the consideration of the Yeomen and Gentlemen of the Southern Districts of England London, 1831, Second Edition

Wing, Charles (Surgeon to the Royal Metropolitan Hospital for Children) Evils of the Factory System, demonstrated by Parliamentary Evidence Saunders and Otley, London, 1837

Woollcombe, Gulielmus Remarks on the Frequency and Fatality of Different Diseases Longman et al., London, 1808

Young, Arthur A Six Weeks Tour through the Southern Counties of England and Wales Strahan, Nicoll, London, Second Edition, 1769 https://archive.org/stream/asixweekstourth00yougoog#page/n6/mode/2up

Young, Arthur A Six Months Tour through the North of England Strahan, Nicoll, London, Second Edition, 4 vols., 1771 https://archive.org/stream/sixmonthstourthr01youn#page/n5/mode/2up https://archive.org/stream/sixmonthstourthr02youn#page/n5/mode/2up https://archive.org/stream/sixmonthstourthr03youn#page/n5/mode/2up https://archive.org/stream/sixmonthstourthr04youn#page/n5/mode/2up

Young, Arthur The Farmer’s Tour through the East of England Strahan, Nicoll, London, Second Edition, 4 vols., 1771 https://archive.org/stream/farmerstourthrou01youn#page/n5/mode/2up https://archive.org/stream/farmerstourthrou02youn#page/n3/mode/2up https://archive.org/stream/farmerstourthrou03youn#page/n3/mode/2up https://archive.org/stream/farmerstourthrou04youn#page/n7/mode/2up

Young, Arthur The Farmer’s Letter to the People of England: containing the Sentiments of a practical Husbandman ….. W. Strahan, London, 1771 (third edition, corrected and enlarged, two volumes) See: Letter V, State of the Labouring Poor, Vol. I, pp. 194-213

Young, Arthur   An Inquiry into the Propriety of applying Wastes to the better Maintenance and Support of the Poor; With Instances of the great Effects which have attended their Acquisition of Property, in keeping them from the Parish even in the present Scarcity. Being the Substance of some Notes taken by the Editor in a Tour in the Year 1800.  J. Rackham, Bury, 1801

Young, Arthur An Enquiry into the Progressive Value of Money in England B. McMillan, London, 1812

Young, Arthur Annals of Agriculture, and other Useful Arts, Vol. 1 to Vol. 45, 1784-1808 Printed for the Editor, London https://catalog.hathitrust.org