The English Poor Law 1780-1930, by Michael Rose (David and Charles, 1971)
Into Unknown England 1866-1913, edited by Peter Keating (Fontana/ Collins, 1976)
‘The Homeless’ from In Darkest England and the Way Out (William Booth, 1890)
‘On the Verge of the Abyss’ from In Darkest England and the Way Out (William Booth, 1890)
‘The Submerged Tenth’ from In Darkest England and the Way Out (William Booth, 1890)
‘The Bitter Cry of Outcast London’, by Andrew Mearns (first published in The Pall Mall Gazette, 1883)
‘A Night in a Workhouse’, by James Greenwood (first published in The Pall Mall Gazette, 1866)
Workhouses of the North, by Peter Higginbotham (Tempus Publications, 1999)