Hungry Forties Vintage and Historic Cartoons

Emigration as a Solution to Working Class Poverty, Chartism and Socialism

Artist:
Leech, John
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csl1052
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2780x2270 pixels (unwatermarked)
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emigration, emigrant, emigrants, empire, british empire, working class, working classes, poor, poverty, chartist, chartism, chartists, socialism, colony, colonies, colonial, hungry forties, revolution, revolutionary, revolutionaries

Pin Money and Needle Money: the Victorian Wealth Gap

Artist:
Leech, John
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csl1053
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2850x1974 pixels (unwatermarked)
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working class, working classes, poor, poverty, hungry forties, seamstress, seamstresses, urban poor, needle money, pin money, rich, wealth, wealthy, wealth gap, inequality

The Hungry Forties - The Poor Law

Artist:
Leech, John
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csl1805
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2306x2999 pixels (unwatermarked)
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poor, hungry forties, hunger, poverty, corn law, corn laws, the corn law, the corn laws, hungry 40's, hungry 40s, poor law, 1845, 1845 poor law, poor laws, landlord, landlords, landowner, landowners, peasant, peasants, starvation, irish, irish peasants, ireland