History: New Poor Law. Augmenting key free resource for England/Wales. Writing a history of the NPL in Wales. British Acad and AHRC funded. #Paupers #Workhouse
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Boards of Guardians’ minute books reveal the lives of workhouse inmates – their names and circumstances, the work they carried out, the food they ate and their living conditions. Alongside other workhouse registers, they help us understand more about life in a #workhouse.
ALT Extract from minutes for the Parish of St John at Hampstead
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Starting the week off with some great news! 🤗
We’re excited to announce that we have received a lifeline grant from the government’s #CultureRecoveryFund, this essential funding means we can continue to be #HereForCulture and our amazing visitors!
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HA Conference is going virtual for November 2020! There will be a mixture of live and recorded talks as well as live Q&A’s and workshops. Register for your place now. #HAconf20 history.org.uk/aboutus/news/…
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We are pleased to announce our latest Themed Collection 'Workhouse Voices' is now live! Over 50 pauper letters to Poor Law Commissioners bring the voices of people in need to your studies of the #Victorians. Take a look:
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#KS3 #KS5 #History #HistoryTeacher
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The collection highlights the work of the @TheirWrite project. An Arts Humanities Research Council funded project examining the large collection of letters in the MH12 series.
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After a fun hour hands on with the documents, we now have Dr Peter Jones of @TheirWrite talking about pauper letters. Excited to learn more about this project!
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Dr Peter Jones @TheirWrite speaking eloquently about pauper letters
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London, England, Poor Law and Board of Guardian Records, 1738-1926
OMG #twitterstorians look what @AncestryUK have released in conjunction with @LdnMetArchives
@TheirWrite @Dave_Lifelines @Writing__Lives ancestry.co.uk/search/collec…
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Ok, you tiresome twat. Define your terms on this. Back up your mendacious claims with evidence. You can't, because its nonsense.
English universities have been told by the education secretary to stop offering “poor value” degrees, arguing that their low-earning graduates are costing the taxpayer “millions”, reports @Annamckie
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On June 20 @uniofleicester will be holding a conference on 'Navigating the nineteenth century institution'. Go along for an exploration of how institutions like hospitals and children's homes were experienced by those subject to their rules. eventbrite.co.uk/e/navigatin… @AHRCpress
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I discuss Bessie's experiences of being an unpaid servant to her Aunt as a young girl here in part 2 of Life and Labour:
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Rebecca’s article on significance of typewritten ms for structure of digital archive looks incredibly useful for our project comparing hand/typed/printed autobiographies @Writing__Lives @emilymcuming @LauraMMair @DrLeeworthy @Brodie_Waddell @TheirWrite
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Brilliant. Sure @TheirWrite will be interested
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The @TheirWrite project is regularly discovering new, exciting and interesting information from the 19th Century Poor Law. Find out more through the project website intheirownwriteblog.com/. We’ll be posting intriguing insights from our #research, such as...
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Ooo look what has arrived! This will be a treat to read @TheirWrite @Writing__Lives Thank you @katrinanavickas for opportunity to review for Social History
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Thank you @TheirWrite and @UkNatArchives for a fascinating webinar on 19thC paupers’ letters. I just can’t get my head round the fact that there are 16,741 volumes of letters m.youtube.com/watch?v=PjvNmD…
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I foresee a lot of time spent on Discovery and looking at @UkNatArchives research guides #ancestryhour 😁
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Thank you so much! It was a lot of hard work, and without Steve I definitely wouldn’t have got through it! 😊🎉😬🍾
Huge congratulations to Cara Dobbing @Caradobbing on the successful award of her PhD! Congratulations also to Professor Steve King for another successful PhD completion! @jrah1
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Here's an example of #AddressingAuthority that I've always wanted to know more about ... and now I can thanks to @DrKarenOBrien's new book on indigenous petitioning!
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