[COMPLETE] London Labour etc., Vol 1 -Mayhew-ans

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London Labour and the London Poor - Volume 1 by Henry Mayhew (1812 - 1887).
This project is now complete! All audio files can be found on our catalogue page https://librivox.org/london-labour-and-the-london-poor-volume-i-by-henry-mayhew/
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time of finished project53:21:45
Subtitled, "A Cyclopaedia of the condition and earnings of those that will work, those that cannot work, and those that will not work."

"The history of a people from the lips of the people themselves .. their labour, earnings, trials and sufferings, in their own unvarnished language, and to pourtray the condition of their homes and their families by personal observation of the places ..." "My earnest hope is that the book may serve to give the rich a more intimate knowledge of the sufferings, and the frequent heroism under those sufferings, of the poor ..."

Henry Mayhew was a social researcher and journalist; he compiled a four volume work in minute detail on the lives of the poor in London, of which this is the first volume, published in 1851.

(Peter Yearsley)

Notes:
1 The reader has attempted different voices to separate the interviewees from the narrator, but makes no claim to the accents being appropriate to the speakers.
2 Very occasionally, the language used may be uncomfortable to a modern listener.
3 Sections 34, 52, and 89 consist of analyses of the data collected in the preceding sections. Mayhew himself implies that it might not be too interesting for some of his readers. Listeners to this recording could miss out these sections without fear that they are missing much.
4 Where expletives and proper names have been abbreviated in the text as, for example, "D---d", or "Mrs M---", these have been rendered as "D blank D" and "Mrs M blank" as appropriate.
5 There are some pages of errata at the end of the book, which mainly involve corrections to the many numbers given in the text. The corrections have been included in the recording. However, many arithmetical errors still exist; these have been left unchanged.

Definitions and slang:
1 In Mayhew's time, a chandler was a dealer in household items such as oil, soap, paint, and groceries.
2 "ing-uns" are frequently mentioned as being sold by the costermongers. This is clarified in the text as being their name for onions.
3 The phrase "Han-sellers" in section 55 is clarified as "hand-sellers" in a later section.
4 A "pottle" is a volume of half a gallon (four pints).
5 A quartern loaf weighs four pounds.
6 "Sawney" is bacon.
7 "Tin" is a nickname for money in general, while a "brown" is the nickname for a copper/bronze coin (a farthing, half-penny, penny, etc.).
8 A "wink" seller sells periwinkles.
9 "Woman- (or girl-) of the streets" seems often to be a euphemism for prostitutes.
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  • Text source (only read from this text!): https://archive.org/details/londonlabourand03mayhgoog
  • Type of proof-listening required (Note: please read the PL FAQ): standard



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    • Project Code: ENaFfUdC
    • Link to author on Wikipedia (if available): (Henry Mayhew) : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Mayhew
    • Link to title on Wikipedia (if available): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Labour_and_the_London_Poor
    • Number of sections (files) this project will have: 100
    • Does the project have an introduction or preface [y/n]: No
    • Original publication date (if known): 1851
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    Genres for the project: non fiction/historical

    Keywords that describe the book: 19th century, London, poverty, poor, street trading, history, labor, labour, workers, interviews, social commentary, social, earnings, conditions

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    • "Section [number] of London Labour and the London Poor, by Henry Mayhew - Volume 1. This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more information, or to volunteer, please visit: librivox DOT org"
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This is an enormous project; I estimate about 47 hours of recording. There is a short book on archive.org that extracts interesting bits from the first three volumes of Mayhew's series (it's called "Mayhew's London"), but unfortunately it was compiled quite recently.

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Post by annise »

I can set it up - back in a jiff.

All done. With 100 sections you will need to start with 001 in your file numbers. Anything else you need just ask , but I think its now over to you :D

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Post by Peter Why »

Thanks, Anne; I'm a couple of pages into my first recording ... over 550 to go!

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Post by dii »

Hi Peter,

Do you have a DPL? I would be happy to listen! :)
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Post by Peter Why »

Hello, Diana,

Thank you. Be my guest; it's going to be a long haul. I won't be upset if you want to step back out of PLing a little (or a lot!) early.

EDIT: There are a couple of pages of errata at the end (almost all are corrections to numbers given in the text). I'll be using these, and will mention them when I post the affected sections.

It's interesting meeting Mr Mayhew in the flesh after meeting him fictionally in Terry Pratchett's "Dodger".

Anne, could you set Diana up as DPL, please?

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Post by dii »

Peter Why wrote:... it's going to be a long haul...
Challenge accepted! :mrgreen: Looking forward to it!
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Team complete :D
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Post by Peter Why »

Thanks, Anne.

I'm just editing the first chapter now. I thought I'd mention that I'm going to try to be consistent in how I handle some common abbreviations:

viz - namely
etc - et cetera
&c - and so on

(I'll add to the list if I encounter any more)
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Post by annise »

Does &c mean something different to etc. - I've always thought they were the same - I learn something new every day at LV. :D

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Post by Peter Why »

I was puzzled as to exactly what "viz" meant, so I checked (it means "namely"). After doing that, I thought that I'd try to stick to a specific definition for it and other Latin abbreviations. I can't remember where I got "and so on" as a definition for "&c" ... when I looked it up just now, you're right that it's equivalent to "etc". But Mayhew uses both "etc" and "&c", so I decided that I would carry on handling them slightly differently. ... it's either that, or go back through the file that's uploading now!

EDIT: Section 1 uploaded.

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Post by dii »

Hi Peter,

notes for sections 1. Only minor things! :)

25:05 - repeated "and": ...dancing bears, and... and tame camels.
26:54 - repeated "serenaders"
29:14 - repeated "and": ...buy-a-brooms, and... and guttapercha heads.
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Post by Peter Why »

Thanks, Diana, I must have hurried the last part of that recording!

Corrected and re-uploaded.

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Post by dii »

Edits are OK! :D It is very pleasant to listen to you :9:
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Post by Peter Why »

Thanks; I've had a few people say how I help them to get to sleep! I'm happy with that: medicinal value to my reading ...

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