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Ann Morton

9 March 2009

Lifestyles 19th and 20th century

Documents from TNA

Lifestyles: 19th and 20th century

• 1837 Winter of Discontent?

• Living the Poor Life Project

• Sanitary Survey 1893

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Lifestyles: household expenditure survey 1937-8 LAB 17/11 Sutton

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Lifestyles: 5 surveys taken in 1837 HO 73/53/85

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Lifestyles: wage rates W R Yorks 1836 and 1837

Includes worsted trade, woollen and flax mills plus other labourers in Halifax, Bradford, Bingley, Keighley and LeedsHO 73/53/69

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Lifestyles: WR Yorks comparison food prices 1836 and 1837 HO 73/53/69

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Lifestyle: comparison of provision prices in Lancashire HO 73/53/77

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Lifestyles: Wages at Iron Works in Merthyr Tydfil HO 73/53/70

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Lifestyles: Living the Poor Life Project

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Lifestyles: Living the Poor Life Project

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Lifestyle: volume of poor law union correspondence

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Lifestyles: Living the Poor Life Project

Dietary table for inmates of Norwich Infirmary Asylum1851

MH 12/8505

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Lifestyles: Living the Poor Life Project

Striking workers atSwansea Copper Works likely to lead to increased applications for poor relief.August 1843

MH 12/16438

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Lifestyles: Dr Edward Smith’s investigation into food of the ‘poorer labouring classes’ 1863

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Lifestyles: Inland Sanitary Survey 1893-95

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Lifestyles: Inland Sanitary Survey

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Lifestyle: Inland Sanitary Survey 1893-5

Isolation hospital in Kendal

MH 12/13624

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Lifestyles: Inland Sanitary Survey 1893-95

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Lifestyles: miners’ cottages Durham MH 12/3050

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Lifestyles: Summary

• Correspondence and papers

• Undescribed and largely untapped

• Returns behind parliamentary papers

• Disaggregated material

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