Social History in The Illustrated London News (original) (raw)

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Social History — Institutions

• The Norwood Charity School and Jane Eyre
• Pentonville Prison and the Inhumanity of the Silent System (7 illustrations)
• Annual Meeting of the British and Foreign School Society
• The School for the Indigent Blind
• The Royal Stock Exchanges, 1569-1844 (7 illustrations)
• "The Lamb and Flag" Ragged Schools (1849)
• Education in the Mining Districts (1855)
• Sketches with the Police (about Jack the Ripper)

Society, Celebrity, and Fashion

• The Empress of the French, in Her Bridal Costume
• Her Majesty and the Infant Prince Arthur — From a Painting by Winterhalter
• Paris Fashion, 1852
• Amelia Bloomer, Originator of the New Dress
• The Queen's Twelfth Cake

Other Newsworthy Events (including the Great Exhibition)

• Relics of the Franklin Expedition arctic expedition
• Accident to the Thunder Steamer at Battersea Bridge
• The Queen's First Trip by Railway
• Loss of the Brig Vine, of Bristol, at Whitby
• Wreck of an Indiaman
• The wreck of the Tigress, off the Round-Down Cliff, Dover
• The Wreck of the "Royal Charter" on the Coast of Anglesea, near Moelfre Five Miles from Point Lynas Lighthouse
• The Royal Naval Exhibition (1891)

Emigration

• Emigrants on Deck
• Tea Water!
• Soup Time
• Dinner in the Forecastle
• Night. — Tracing the Vessel's Progress
• Wreck of the Floridian, Emigrant Ship, on the Long Sands, off Harwich
• Skinner Prout's "Scenes on Board an Australian Emigrant Ship” and David Copperfield

The Environment

• The Purification of The Thames

Related Material

• Sports and Leisure
• The Mail Coach vs. The Mail Train

Last modified 30 May 2025