The Charity Market and Humanitarianism in Britain, 1870

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Cover image: Fundraising in Liverpool for the victims of the Abercarn colliery explosion, United Kingdom, illustration from the magazine The Graphic, volume XVIII, no 463, October 12, 1878. (© De Agostini/Biblioteca Ambrosiana/Getty Images)

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