The Bitter Cry of Outcast London: An Inquiry into the Condition of the Abject Poor Rev. Andrew Mearns (1883) There is no more hopeful sign in the Christian Church of…
Campaigning Against the Acts: Public Meeting of Women at York The Shield (January 7, 1871) A public meeting was held on Tuesday afternoon, the 13th ult., in the Merchants Hall, Fossgate,…
The Death of General Gordon at Khartoum, 1885 Alfred Egmont Hake in Eva March Tappan (ed.) The World’s Story: A History of the World in Story, Song and Art (Boston, 1914) vol.…
Presentation of the Petition to the Queen: Praying for the Release of Mr. W. T. Stead and Rebecca Jarrett The War Cry (January 2, 1886) This Petition consisted of 200,005 signatures,…
The Turkish Atrocities in Bulgaria: Horrible Scenes at Batak J. A. MacGahan (The Daily News, August 22, 1876), pp.5-6 Since my letter of yesterday I have supped full of horrors.…
Bulgarian Horrors and the Question of the East [W]illiam [E]wart Gladstone (1876) In the difficult question of the East, entangled by so many cross-purposes and interests, the people of this…