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Editorial Family & Community History Pub Date : 2023-11-23 Steve King
Published in Family & Community History (Vol. 26, No. 3, 2023)
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No Country for Old Men? Late Medieval Gentry ‘Communities of the Mind’ in the County of Hampshire Family & Community History Pub Date : 2023-11-23 Toby Purser
This article examines the armigerous gentry (knights and esquires) that operated in and around the county of Hampshire in the late-fourteenth to mid-fifteenth century. It finds that whilst there wa...
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‘The Law of The Board of Health’? Rhetoric, Failure and Public Health in the English Periphery, C.1848–1875 Family & Community History Pub Date : 2023-11-23 Chris Day
Scant attention has been paid to public health in small, peripheral towns between 1848 and 1875, often because it elicited little physical or infrastructural effect in these places. Drawing on rece...
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Hull 2017 UK City of Culture: A Public History Analysis Family & Community History Pub Date : 2023-11-23 Alexander Angus
This research has focused on understanding how effectively Hull 2017 UK City of Culture incorporated public history into its programme. This has been determined in context to the characteristics of...
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Book Reviews Family & Community History Pub Date : 2023-11-23
Published in Family & Community History (Vol. 26, No. 3, 2023)
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Editorial Family & Community History Pub Date : 2023-07-19 Mark Rothery
Published in Family & Community History (Vol. 26, No. 2, 2023)
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Genealogies of Enslavement and Convictism: Family Histories and Their Legacies in Barbados, Mauritius, and Australia Family & Community History Pub Date : 2023-07-19 Clare Anderson, Tony Birch, Nicolas Couronne, Sharon Cox, Carrie Crockett, Lorraine Paterson
This roundtable places academics and family historians together in research and dialogue to co-produce and publish shared knowledge about the past. Focusing on histories of empire, enslavement, and penal transportation in Barbados, Mauritius, and Australia, we offer this format as an equitable alternative to an academic article written by professional scholars with acknowledgement of genealogists’
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Romantic Pursuits? Rethinking Courtship in Georgian Wales Family & Community History Pub Date : 2023-07-19 Angela Joy Muir
Existing histories of courtship in the long eighteenth century typically focus on it as a step on the road to marriage, exploring the rituals and emptions involved, or the consequences of frustrated courtship, such as breach of promise cases of illegitimacy. Few consider the immediate risks for unmarried women associated with courtship customs that allow or encourage premarital sex. Historians of sexual
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FIT OBJECTS of BENEFICENCE: CHARITY, INSANITY AND THE MIDDLE-CLASS CAUSE IN MID-VICTORIAN ENGLAND Family & Community History Pub Date : 2023-07-19 Cathy Smith
This article explores Victorian concerns about the middle-class insane after the 1845 Lunacy Acts which promoted rate-supported provision for pauper lunatics. Calls for appropriate and affordable care for those of middle-class status grew after 1845 and encompassed public, charitable and private initiatives. A key priority was to ensure that insanity did not pauperise those from the middle class but
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Book Reviews Family & Community History Pub Date : 2023-07-19 Dick Hunter
Published in Family & Community History (Vol. 26, No. 2, 2023)
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Avoiding Attention? Assessing the Reasons for Register Office Weddings in Victorian England and Wales Family & Community History Pub Date : 2023-05-30 Rebecca Probert
The option of getting married in a register office was introduced by the Marriage Act 1836, and over the course of Victoria’s reign over a million couples availed themselves of it. Yet surprisingly little is known about them. This article analyses information about 286 register office weddings celebrated between 1837 and 1901, with examples from 40 counties and 151 different registration districts
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‘An Exceedingly Painful Case’: The Aftermath of Divorce in Mid-Nineteenth Century England and Wales Family & Community History Pub Date : 2023-05-30 Jennifer Aston
Research into the Divorce and Matrimonial Causes Act 1857 has revealed surprising and unexpected findings, particularly surrounding the accessibility of the Divorce Courts, and the relatively slow uptake of English and Welsh couples who sought to legally dissolve their unions. The aftermath of this process – when the dust of the court room had settled and the litigation was (one way or another) complete
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Editorial Family & Community History Pub Date : 2023-05-30 Mark Rothery
Published in Family & Community History (Vol. 26, No. 1, 2023)
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Introduction Family & Community History Pub Date : 2023-05-30 Rebecca Probert
Published in Family & Community History (Vol. 26, No. 1, 2023)
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‘Train them in Habits of Morality’: Did Boarding out Deter Poor Law Children from Getting Married? Family & Community History Pub Date : 2023-05-30 Rachel Pimm-Smith
How prevalent was marriage for children who were removed from their birth community by the poor law authorities? This article investigates whether children who experienced intervention from the Islington poor law authorities during the late nineteenth century were deterred from marrying and having children as adults. To answer these questions two samples of children were assembled and traced through
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Fractured Courtships in Britain in the Long Nineteenth-Century Family & Community History Pub Date : 2023-05-30 By Steven King
In this article I use a dataset which spans three broad source types – poor law records, coronial records, and forms of life-writing including memoirs – to understand the scale of fractured courtships in the long nineteenth century. Having established that ordinary people experienced failed courtships more often than we have supposed, I look (using whole corpus approaches and individual case studies)
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Book reviews Family & Community History Pub Date : 2023-05-30 Dick Hunter
Published in Family & Community History (Vol. 26, No. 1, 2023)
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Editorial Family & Community History Pub Date : 2023-03-24 Steven King
Published in Family & Community History (Vol. 25, No. 3, 2022)
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“Nothing More or Less than a Discharged Convict”: The Career of Dr Thomas Millerchip of Coventry, 1874–1912. Family & Community History Pub Date : 2023-03-24 Stuart Wildman, Frances Badger
During his career, Thomas Millerchip served four prison sentences, two for attempting to procure abortion, and was removed from the register by the General Medical Council in 1885. Yet, he experienced considerable support in his hometown of Coventry and subsequently practised, intermittently, outside of the law until his death in 1912. This article examines the ways in which, as a newly qualified practitioner
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“So They May be Usefull to Themselves”: Work and Apprenticeship in the Ackworth Branch Foundling Hospital, 1757–1773 Family & Community History Pub Date : 2023-03-24 By Claire Phillips
During the period 1756–1760, the Foundling Hospital accepted more children for admission than could be housed at its London premises. Branch Hospitals were opened across the country, including at Ackworth, Yorkshire. Ackworth Branch Hospital operated a manufactory, staffed by many of the children it received. The manufactory provided the children with experience prior to their undertaking apprenticeships
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Manning the British Empire: Gender, Identity and Emotions in Early Twentieth Century Britain Family & Community History Pub Date : 2023-03-24 Mark Rothery
This article analyses the thought processes of Ralph Furse, a senior civil servant tasked with selecting and training senior colonial officials during the early twentieth century. It makes use of his desk diaries between 1910 and 1914, which he used to record his impressions of candidates for the colonial service, and his autobiography, published after his retirement in the 1960s. Furse based his assessments
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Book Review Family & Community History Pub Date : 2023-03-24 Dick Hunter
Published in Family & Community History (Vol. 25, No. 3, 2022)
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Editorial Family & Community History Pub Date : 2022-11-11 Carol Beardmore
Published in Family & Community History (Vol. 25, No. 2, 2022)
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Introduction Family & Community History Pub Date : 2022-11-11 Geoff Monks
Published in Family & Community History (Vol. 25, No. 2, 2022)
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‘Still About the Town’: Constructing Disability in Small Town Nineteenth Century England Family & Community History Pub Date : 2022-11-11 Steven King
This article draws on the largest source base ever assembled – some 12 million words of diverse material ranging from letters, through life-writing and to committee minutes – to investigate the public presence of those with sensory, physical or mental impairments. Focusing on the nineteenth century, the classic period in which it is argued that impairment came to be constructed into ‘disability’ and
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‘This Man is Really an Intolerable Pest’: Perceptions and Treatment of the Disabled in the Workhouse, 1834–1900 Family & Community History Pub Date : 2022-11-11 By Carol Beardmore
Peter Higginbottom has argued that historians have failed to hear, find and listen to the voices of workhouse inmates. Using the recent research undertaken by the AHRC project ‘In Their Own Write’ the focus of this article will be on the letters and statements made by disabled and infirm inmates. By using a range of the correspondence, it will explore the voice of the disabled in the workhouse and
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‘Idiots’ in Eighteenth-Century London Families and Communities: Evidence from Old Bailey Trials Family & Community History Pub Date : 2022-11-11 Simon Jarrett
This article examines fifty trials held at the Old Bailey Criminal Court in London between 1690 and 1830 which featured individuals (mostly defendants) characterised as ‘idiots’ or similar, broadly correlating with people characterised as people with learning disabilities today. Evidence from the trials, including witness testimony, character witness statements, court verdicts and testimony from the
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‘Biteing Another Pauper with WHOM She Slept’: Lunatics, Idiots and Imbeciles Under the New Poor Law, C.1836–1852 Family & Community History Pub Date : 2022-11-11 Matthew Bayly
This article examines the experiences of care and relief for paupers deemed lunatics, idiots and imbeciles during the initial decades of the New Poor Law. Analysis focusses on two Lincolnshire Poor Law Unions (the Sleaford and Lincoln) and is structured around three loci of care: the parish, the asylum and the workhouse. Although the parish continued to be the primary locus of care throughout the early
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Book reviews Family & Community History Pub Date : 2022-11-11 Dick Hunter
Published in Family & Community History (Vol. 25, No. 2, 2022)
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Editorial Family & Community History Pub Date : 2022-08-10 Carol Beardmore
Published in Family & Community History (Vol. 25, No. 1, 2022)
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Parishes, Pandemics and Paths to Take: Post-Covid-19 Historical Options Family & Community History Pub Date : 2022-08-10 K. D. M. Snell
This article asks how Covid-19 should affect historical research, especially into local and parish history. It does so by addressing a number of key themes, such as the conduct of welfare history, and how Covid might influence historical medical research and ideas of locality. The effects of Covid on religion and the parish are examined, with an eye to historical precedent. The pandemic raises salient
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‘The Wider Aspects of “Kampong Kirkby”’: A New Window on the Malayan Teachers’ Training College in Lancashire, England, 1952–1962 Family & Community History Pub Date : 2022-08-10 Rachael Jones
In 1952 the first intake of student teachers from Malaya arrived at Kirkby training college in the north of England. This was the beginning of a remarkable eleven-year international and transnational project to help meet a shortage of staff in Malayan schools. Widely available reminiscences of former students and local residents exist but this article gives a fuller picture by referencing newspaper
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BOOK REVIEWS MALCOLM GASKILL, The Ruin of All Witches: Life and Death in the New World Family & Community History Pub Date : 2022-08-10
Published in Family & Community History (Vol. 25, No. 1, 2022)
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Editorial Family & Community History Pub Date : 2022-03-09 Mark Rothery
(2021). Editorial. Family & Community History: Vol. 24, No. 3, pp. 193-194.
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Transportation to the American Colonies, Execution Rates and the ‘Bloody Code’, 1675–1775 Family & Community History Pub Date : 2022-03-09 Louis Wakelin
This article argues that the transportation of British convicts to America limited Bloody Code implementation by dominating sentencing practices. The analysis employs the Old Bailey Online, newspapers, runaway slave advertisements, and ballads. These sources reveal that the secondary punishment which removed criminals, yet made use of them in a foreign country, was key to limiting executions between
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Jewish Child Integration in Britain: A Comparative Examination of Russian-Jewish and German-Jewish Refugees Family & Community History Pub Date : 2022-03-09 Olivia Murphy
By adopting a comparative approach to the lives of Russian-Jewish and German-Jewish refugee children in Britain, this article explores the extent to which Jewish refugee children were able to successfully integrate into British society. After stating the difference between the integration and assimilation of the Jewish refugees, this article examines how the education, religion and familial relations
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The Census Records of Leicester 1851–1911, Class and Society Family & Community History Pub Date : 2022-03-09 Charlotte Middleton
This article uses the census to study two streets in Leicester from 1851 to 1911, comparing them to each other and the rest of the country. These streets are New Walk, a middle-class street, and Welford Road, a working-class street. Twenty samples have been taken from each census and each street to create a representation of working- and middle-class Leicester. Information like age, relationship to
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The History of the Secret Garden, Glenfield Hospital Family & Community History Pub Date : 2022-03-09 Charlie Wyatt
The article researches the history of the Secret Garden and Leicester Frith House, which is based at Glenfield Hospital in Leicester. The Secret Garden aims to restore a Victorian original walled kitchen garden to provide a therapeutic environment for both patients and staff of the hospital. It has never been more important have outdoor space. The Coronavirus Pandemic has highlighted how being outdoors
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Book Reviews Family & Community History Pub Date : 2022-03-09 Daniel Weinbren
(2021). Book Reviews. Family & Community History: Vol. 24, No. 3, pp. 289-303.
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Editorial Family & Community History Pub Date : 2021-08-03
(2021). Editorial. Family & Community History: Vol. 24, No. 2, pp. 83-84.
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Angels in english and welsh churchyard and cemetery memorials, 1660–2020 Family & Community History Pub Date : 2021-08-03
Churchyard and cemetery memorials are increasingly important to historians for themes such as family and community history, demography, artistic styles, and changing attitudes to mortality. In this article, via analysis of 250 Anglican, Nonconformist and cemetery burial sites in England and Wales, the authors investigate the use of angels and cherubs as gravestone features and look closely at the chronology
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Church Redundancy: Changing Anglican Community and Belonging in Leicestershire and Lincolnshire, c. 1950–1995.* Family & Community History Pub Date : 2021-08-03
Abstract Anglican church redundancy has attracted much attention in the twenty-first century, and sweeping generalisations are made about the reasons for closure. Using two regional case studies, Leicestershire and Lincolnshire, this article explores the human reality behind the generalisations and statistics for individual churches. Data from the Church of England and linked parish church records
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Voices of Indigenous Dallas-Fort Worth from Relocation to the Dakota Access Pipeline Controversy Family & Community History Pub Date : 2021-08-03
After centuries of removals and attacks, most people have assumed that no Native Americans remained in northern Texas in cities such as Dallas-Fort Worth during the twentieth century. Oral histories bring to light voices of Native communities that have developed and sought to Indigenize the DFW metropole. Beginning in the mid-twentieth century, diverse Native Americans began to gather and connect Indigenous
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Book Reviews Family & Community History Pub Date : 2021-08-03
(2021). Book Reviews. Family & Community History: Vol. 24, No. 2, pp. 175-191.
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Editorial Family & Community History Pub Date : 2021-06-01 Carol Beardmore
(2021). Editorial. Family & Community History: Vol. 24, No. 1, pp. 1-3.
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Women, Migration and Textile Work in West Yorkshire, 1800–1851 Family & Community History Pub Date : 2021-06-01 Steven King
Between the late eighteenth and mid-nineteenth century, the West Yorkshire woollen industry was one of the heartbeats of the Industrial Revolution and British prosperity on the international stage. At least until the 1830 s, much of this woollen cloth production was undertaken in a domestic or small workshop context and with a significant use of family labour. The communities that were at the heart
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Fraternal Networks Of Victorian Norfolk Family & Community History Pub Date : 2021-06-01 Daniel Weinbren
The social and economic dislocation experienced in Victorian Norfolk during the later nineteenth-century derived from the fall in land and grain prices, declining rental incomes, the spread of cattle disease, imports of cheap grain and its transportation by rail, and tensions between labourers and farmers. In this context, an assessment of one Masonic lodge indicates that Freemasonry provided a space
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Darlaston: Growth of A Staffordshire Industrial Town During the Nineteenth Century Family & Community History Pub Date : 2021-06-01 Rachael Jones
Darlaston, in the part of the English midlands known as the Black Country, grew from a small village prior to the Industrial Revolution to a town of over 15,000 inhabitants by the beginning of the twentieth century. It played an important role in the area’s coal and iron extraction, and manufacture of gun parts, screws and bolts. Hitherto little has been written about the social history of this significant
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Book Reviews Family & Community History Pub Date : 2021-06-01 Dick Hunter
(2021). Book Reviews. Family & Community History: Vol. 24, No. 1, pp. 66-81.
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Editorial Family & Community History Pub Date : 2021-03-19 Mark Rothery
(2020). Editorial. Family & Community History: Vol. 23, No. 3, pp. 167-168.
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Community and Identity: Late Victorian Navvies Family & Community History Pub Date : 2021-03-19 Bryan John Ayres
Navvies were noted both for their itinerant lifestyle and their detachment from wider society. These characteristics imply a lack of long-term association with any given place or with accepted social and cultural norms. As such, the concept of community would seem to have only limited relevance to navvies. This article advances the argument that by the late nineteenth century this was far from the
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The Migration Patterns of Male Residents in Four Lincolnshire Settlements in 1851 Family & Community History Pub Date : 2021-03-19 Jill Caine
Migration in England and Wales during the nineteenth-century has been much studied in the past century. In the mid-1880s E.G. Ravenstein analysed the 1881 census reports relating to the migration of people from rural to urban environments and published his research in a paper entitled ‘the laws of migration’. This has been the basis for many migration research projects since that time. My article uses
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English Local History: An Introduction Family & Community History Pub Date : 2021-03-19 Maria Luddy
(2020). English Local History: An Introduction. Family & Community History: Vol. 23, No. 3, pp. 222-235.
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Editorial Family & Community History Pub Date : 2020-10-08 Mark Rothery
(2020). Editorial. Family & Community History: Vol. 23, No. 2, pp. 93-94.
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Moving Home And Changing Lives: Diary Evidence For The Study Of Migration And Mobility Family & Community History Pub Date : 2020-05-03 Colin G. Pooley, Marilyn E. Pooley
This paper examines the ways in which connections to family, community and associated activities changed following a residential move. Evidence is taken from a single diary written by a woman who lived in north Lancashire in the twentieth century. Initially the diarist retained quite strong links back to her home community, but these gradually weakened over time. However, the activities that she undertook
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Household textiles 1660-1850: hidden items of material culture from the country house Family & Community History Pub Date : 2020-05-03 Elizabeth Lowry
The role of decorative textiles within the country house as elite signifers has attracted considerable attention, yet that of the household textiles that performed practical functions linked to sociability, comfort and hygiene has been underrepresented. Household textiles, the sheets, pillow cases, table linen and towels that were part of the everyday experience of everyone except the indigent, are
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Nineteenth-century Nimbys, Or What The Neighbour Saw? Poverty, Surveillance, And The Boarding-out Of Poor Law Children In Late Nineteenth-century Belfast Family & Community History Pub Date : 2020-05-03 Olwen Purdue
Nineteenth-century Ireland saw the emergence of a campaign to have orphaned and abandoned children ‘boarded out’ from workhouses to live with families in return for payment. Despite growing anxiety about the unsuitability of workhouses for children, communities could show resistance to having these children, particularly those from urban workhouses, living in their own neighbourhood. Using the case
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PETER GATRELL, The unsettling of Europe. The great migration, 1945 to the present Family & Community History Pub Date : 2020-01-02 Colin Pooley
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Learning To Live Together? The Open University, Student-prisoners And ‘the Troubles’ Family & Community History Pub Date : 2020-01-02 Daniel Weinbren
During ‘the Troubles’, c1971–1998, the Open University, OU, fostered the emergent peace process which culminated in the 1998 Belfast Agreement. To evaluate the extent and impact of this nurturing there is recourse to David McMillan’s notion of a ‘sense of community’ and to the personal testimony of a range of prisoners, prison officers and OU staff. This material is framed by an assessment of the OU’s
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Taking control: gossip, community and conflict in basford union workhouse 1836 to 1871 Family & Community History Pub Date : 2020-01-02 Caroline Walton
The workhouse is the totemic symbol of our understandings about the harsh life faced by the poor of nineteenth-century England. Workhouse paupers provide the human embodiment of this symbol, charac...