This is a sample of the free iAudioguide of London, offering around 60 minutes of entertaining information on the highlights of London and a city map. The podcast is updated regulary so more tracks will be added. The full audio guide for London and audio guides for other major cities are available to download from our website at www.iAudioguide.com
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In this Oxford World’s Classics audio guide, listen to Robert Douglas-Fairhurst of Magdalen College, Oxford University – who edited and selected this new edition – introduce Henry Mayhew’s ‘London Labour and the London Poor’. ‘London Labour and the London Poor’ originated in a series of articles for a London newspaper and grew into a massive record of the daily life of Victorian London’s underclass. Mayhew conducted hundreds of interviews with the city’s street traders, entertainers, thieves ...
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An introduction to Henry Mayhew, and his place in Victorian literature
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What brought Henry Mayhew into the slums of Victorian London?
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3:21In this Oxford World’s Classics audio guide, listen to Robert Douglas-Fairhurst of Magdalen College, Oxford University – who edited and selected this new edition – introduce Henry Mayhew’s ‘London Labour and the London Poor’.‘London Labour and the London Poor’ originated in a series of articles for a London newspaper and grew into a massive record …
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How were Mayhew’s first reports received by the reading public?
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2:50In this Oxford World’s Classics audio guide, listen to Robert Douglas-Fairhurst of Magdalen College, Oxford University – who edited and selected this new edition – introduce Henry Mayhew’s ‘London Labour and the London Poor’.‘London Labour and the London Poor’ originated in a series of articles for a London newspaper and grew into a massive record …
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What was Henry Mayhew looking for as he explored the habitat of London’s poor?
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2:05In this Oxford World’s Classics audio guide, listen to Robert Douglas-Fairhurst of Magdalen College, Oxford University – who edited and selected this new edition – introduce Henry Mayhew’s ‘London Labour and the London Poor’.‘London Labour and the London Poor’ originated in a series of articles for a London newspaper and grew into a massive record …
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What were Henry Mayhew’s working methods – how did he capture the lives of the poor?
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1:36In this Oxford World’s Classics audio guide, listen to Robert Douglas-Fairhurst of Magdalen College, Oxford University – who edited and selected this new edition – introduce Henry Mayhew’s ‘London Labour and the London Poor’.‘London Labour and the London Poor’ originated in a series of articles for a London newspaper and grew into a massive record …
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What sort of people did Mayhew take off the streets to interview?
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1:50In this Oxford World’s Classics audio guide, listen to Robert Douglas-Fairhurst of Magdalen College, Oxford University – who edited and selected this new edition – introduce Henry Mayhew’s ‘London Labour and the London Poor’.‘London Labour and the London Poor’ originated in a series of articles for a London newspaper and grew into a massive record …
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What attitudes towards the poor and poverty come across from Henry Mayhew’s writing?
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2:07In this Oxford World’s Classics audio guide, listen to Robert Douglas-Fairhurst of Magdalen College, Oxford University – who edited and selected this new edition – introduce Henry Mayhew’s ‘London Labour and the London Poor’.‘London Labour and the London Poor’ originated in a series of articles for a London newspaper and grew into a massive record …
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To the Victorians, was poverty seen as natural, or the result of an economic system?
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2:55In this Oxford World’s Classics audio guide, listen to Robert Douglas-Fairhurst of Magdalen College, Oxford University – who edited and selected this new edition – introduce Henry Mayhew’s ‘London Labour and the London Poor’.‘London Labour and the London Poor’ originated in a series of articles for a London newspaper and grew into a massive record …
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What kind of prose stylist is Henry Mayhew?
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2:27In this Oxford World’s Classics audio guide, listen to Robert Douglas-Fairhurst of Magdalen College, Oxford University – who edited and selected this new edition – introduce Henry Mayhew’s ‘London Labour and the London Poor’.‘London Labour and the London Poor’ originated in a series of articles for a London newspaper and grew into a massive record …
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What impact did Henry Mayhew’s writing have on his contemporaries?
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3:45In this Oxford World’s Classics audio guide, listen to Robert Douglas-Fairhurst of Magdalen College, Oxford University – who edited and selected this new edition – introduce Henry Mayhew’s ‘London Labour and the London Poor’.‘London Labour and the London Poor’ originated in a series of articles for a London newspaper and grew into a massive record …
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