J.R.Wood of the Manchester Statistical Society carried out a detailed survey of the educational system in Liverpool over the last few months of 1835 and the beginning of 1836, soon after the Cornwallis investigation.
Black '47: Britain and the Famine Irish
This book examines the scale of that refugee immigration, the conditions under which the refugees were carried to Britain, the relief operations mounted, the horrors of the typhus epidemic in Liverpool, Glasgow, Manchester, South Wales and ...
This graphic novel brings the suffering and immediacy of the Irish Famine to life through the combination of word and illustration.
Set in Skibbereen and The Mizen, this is a gripping and moving story of Ireland's 'Great Hunger', when the only escape from famine for most landless families was flight to England or America.