Peggy Jones, the well known mud lark, at Blackfrairs. Engraving, 1805.

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/features/dirt-the-filthy-reality-of-everyday-life--in-pictures-2255207.html?action=Gallery&ino=15

Carding

Victorian child praying

Non-navvy drink seller, Manchester Ship Canal

The last of the White Rajahs: The extraordinary story of the Victorian adventurer who subjugated a vast swathe of Borneo

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1367066/The-White-Rajahs-The-extraordinary-story-Victorian-adventurer-subjugated-vast-swathe-Borneo.html

Workers on the Silent Highway; The Crawlers; Cast Iron Billy 1876-77,

British Library

Poverty and Juvenile Crime in Victorian times

http://www.hiddenlives.org.uk/articles/juvenile_part1.html