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Liverpool Community, 1649-1750
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.The purpose of the project was to investigate the character of Liverpool society during the first century of its rapid commercial expansion, and in particular to address the question whether its social characteristics help to explain the dynamic nature of its economic growth. The particular questions...
Great Britain Historical Database: Census Statistics : Collections, 1861
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...
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...
Workhouse populations, 1851-1911
This dataset constitutes a sample of individuals resident in nineteenth and early twentieth century workhouses (residential institutions for the poor). These data were collected for preliminary investigations of the demographic characteristics of the workhouse-resident population between 1851 and 1911, as part of wider research by Samantha Williams on the workhouse. The...
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...
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,...
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...
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)...