Person    | Male  Born 25/11/1812  Died 25/7/1887

Henry Mayhew

Social researcher and journalist. Born London. Joint founding editor with Mark Lemon, of the magazine 'Punch' and author of 'London Labour and the London Poor'. Born into a wealthy London family, of seventeen children. Died 8 Tavistock Street. Good article at London Historians.

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Henry Mayhew

Henry Mayhew, 1812 - 1887, founder of 'Punch' and author of 'London Labour an...

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Richard Church

Richard Church

Poet and writer. Born Richard Thomas Church in Battersea. He worked as a civil servant, before taking up writing full-time in 1933. His poems include 'Solstices', 'A House in Winter' and 'The Man W...

Person, Journalism / Publishing, Poetry

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Sir Henry Morton Stanley

Sir Henry Morton Stanley

Explorer and journalist, born as John Rowlands at Denbigh, Wales. Illegitimate and brought up in a workhouse, he sailed to America as a cabin boy in 1859. He befriended a trader called Henry Hope S...

Person, Exploring, Journalism / Publishing, Race Issues, Seriously Famous, Africa, USA, Wales

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The Sun

The Sun

Launched to replace the Daily Herald. First printed at Bouverie Streeet, south of Fleet Street. The Sun's website refused to let us have a picture of their logo so we went elsewhere for it. Whic...

Media, Journalism / Publishing

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'All the Year Round'

'All the Year Round'

Charles Dickens' magazine.

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Francis Hueffer

Francis Hueffer

Born Münster, Germany. Music critic. He studied philology and music in Leipzig, Berlin, Paris and London. He moved to London in 1869 and worked as music critic for The Times. He was naturalized in ...

Person, Journalism / Publishing, Music / songs, Germany

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