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Welfare Regimes under the Irish Poor Law, 1850-1921
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.This data was collected as a part of a project that set out to investigate the history of statutory poor relief in Ireland from the end of the Great Famine in 1850 to the establishment of an independent Irish state in 1922. Using qualitative and quantitative data, it explored the character, organisation...
Great Britain Historical Database : Labour Markets Database, Poor Law Statistics, 1859-1939
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.The Great Britain Historical Database has been assembled as part of the ongoing Great Britain Historical GIS Project. The project aims to trace the emergence of the north-south divide in Britain and to provide a synoptic view of the human geography of Britain at sub-county scales. Further information...
Jeremy Bentham, 1748-1832: Transcripts of Original Manuscripts
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.The aim of the Bentham Project is to produce a new scholarly edition of the works and correspondence of Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832), the influential jurist, philosopher and social scientist, whom A.J.P. Taylor described as 'the most formidable reasoner who ever applied his gifts to the practical questions...
Digest of Welsh Historical Statistics : Local Government, 1748-1974
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.This machine-readable version of John Williams' <i>Digest of Welsh Historical Statistics</i> is the result of a collaboration between the Statistical Directorate of the National Assembly for Wales, the History Data Service and the Centre for Data Digitisation and Analysis at Queen's University...
Great Britain Historical Database : Economic Distress and Labour Markets Data : Poor Law Statistics, 1859-1939
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.The Great Britain Historical Database has been assembled as part of the ongoing Great Britain Historical GIS Project. The project aims to trace the emergence of the north-south divide in Britain and to provide a synoptic view of the human geography of Britain at sub-county scales. Further information...
Registration of loans and gifts in Leiden, 1932-1936
This dataset contains information on loans and gifts, occupation, addresses and sex of persons who applied for, and received, loans and gifts of the Crisis Committee of Leiden during the years 1932-1936. The data was collected during an Economic History seminar at Leiden University under the supervision of Professor dr H. de Vries.
Poor relief in Amsterdam, about 1800-1850
The main subject of this dataset is a socio-historical investigation into the functioning of poor relief in the city of Amsterdam during 1800-1850. The data is based on registration documents of the institutions for poor relief (such as the Lutheran, Jewish and Municipal institutions). Each file contains background information, for example demographic data and social...
Database of Irish Historical Statistics : Miscellaneous (Famine Relief), 1846-1847
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.The purpose of the project was to provide machine-readable economic and social history statistics relating to the whole of Ireland for the period 1821-1971. Further information about the project is available on the QUB Centre for Data Digitisation and Analysis website.
Main Topics:The main tables are:
The...
Scottish Poor Law Commission Statistics, 1844
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.This study uses statistics from the <i>Report of the Scottish Poor Law Commissioners</i> (1844) to investigate and map the condition of the Scottish working class in 1843 on a parish by parish basis. The stated aim of the Scottish Poor Law Commissioners investigation in 1843 was <i>To...
Thame, Oxfordshire in the Seventeenth Century
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.The aim of this project was to produce a social and economic history of the town of Thame, Oxfordshire in the seventeenth century, with special emphases on the way in which local families controlled the town's economy and on the connections between agriculture and the trades of the town. A biographical...
Urban Poverty in Nineteenth Century Italy : Florence, Turin, Rome, 1810-1812
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.The main purpose of the study was to investigate the nature of poverty and its demographic dimensions in Florence, Turin and Rome about the year 1810. The data were collected from petitions made by households seeking poor relief from the respective urban authorities.Main Topics:Variables
1. Economic
For...
Bromyard Workhouse Database, 1840
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.The aim of this dataset is to investigate the time spent in a workhouse by inmates.Main Topics:Poor law.
Workhouse admissions and discharges; date admitted; date discharged; length of time spent in workhouse.
Inmate name; age; parish responsible for pauper; occupation; illegitimacy; marital status; able...
New Survey of London Life and Labour, 1929-1931
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.The main aims of the research project were to computerise all the surviving records of the New Survey of London Life and Labour (1929-31), and to begin economic analysis of the data obtained. The specific objectives were:
1. To input the data in a manner which would preserve virtually all the...
The Geography of Old Age in Late-Victorian England and Wales, 1891
This aggregate-level dataset links poor relief data recorded on 1 January 1891 with several variables from corresponding 1891 census data, all at the level of the registration district (RD). Specifically, the numbers of men and women receiving indoor and outdoor relief in the ‘non-able-bodied’ category (taken as a proxy of the numbers of older-age men and women on relief)...
Census and Poor Law Union Data, 1871-1891
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.The paper Udny Yule read to the Royal Statistical Society at the end of the nineteenth century (Yule, 1899) was a landmark in social statistics. He applied multiple regression analysis to a question of social policy, namely reforms to the 19th century system of poverty alleviation in England. To do this,...
Budget and nutrition during the 1930s
The data set compares the life circumstances of the unemployed with those of the employed people in the Netherlands. The main aim of this comparison is to indicate the effectiveness of government Support Scheme (‘Steunregeling’) for the unemployed citizens.