Primary Source

• Henry Mayhew and John Binny, The Criminal Prisons of London and Scenes of Prison Life (1862)

Reading on Mayhew

• A L Beier, 'Identity, Language, and Resistance in the Making of the Victorian "Criminal Class": Mayhew's Convict Revisited', Journal of British Studies, 2005
• David Englander, 'Henry Mayhew and the Criminal Classes of Victorian England : The Case Reopened', Criminal Justice History, 2002
• Richard Maxwell, 'Henry Mayhew and the Life of the Streets', Journal of British Studies, 1978
• Bertrand Taithe (ed.), The Essential Mayhew: Representing and Communicating the Poor
• E P Thompson and Eileen Yeo (eds), The Unknown Mayhew: Selections from the Morning Chronicle
• Deborah Vlock, ‘Mayhew, Henry (1812–1887)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography