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Field name | Value |
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Title | Henry Walter Parker, correspondence and papers related to the West Midlands District (includes Berkshire, Dorset, Surrey, Sussex and Wiltshire) |
Reference | MH 32/60 |
Date | 1834-1845 |
Document Type | Correspondence; Report; Map; Speech; Returns Form; Pamphlet |
Collection | MH 32 Local Government Board and Predecessors: Assistant Poor Law Commissioners and Inspectors, Correspondence, 1834-1904 |
Series Description | This series contains correspondence of the Poor Law Commission and Board with assistant poor law commissioners and poor law inspectors, and of the Local Government Board with its general, engineering, medical, school, boarding-out and other inspectors. The series also contains separate volumes of correspondence on special subjects with various inspectors, and also circulars of the Board, reports of inspectors on the conditions and classification of workhouses, a medical report on infant feeding and a report by Edwin Chadwick on outdoor relief, 1840. |
Document Description | Includes papers related to the emigration of labouring people to New South Wales, and a pamphlet on opposition to the Poor Law (Amendment) Act 1834. Also contains correspondence with Sir Edward Parry. |
Theme | The Poor Laws, Workhouses and Outdoor Relief; Race and Immigration; Social Reform and Welfare; Socialism and Political Movements |
Keywords | emigration women labour migration wages legislation government acts government bills Whig Party poor relief indoor relief outdoor relief Board of Guardians schools hospital casual poor medical relief vaccination colonies population able bodied administration casual poor settlement laws workhouse conditions socialism Union organisation mental health apprentices asylum discontent social unrest |
Country | England Australia |
County | Berkshire Dorset Surrey Sussex Wiltshire Gloucestershire Hampshire (including Isle of Wight) Oxfordshire Buckinghamshire Norfolk |
Places | New South Wales Abingdon Bradfield Cookham Easthampstead Faringdon Hungerford Newbury Reading Wallingford Wantage Windsor Wokingham Alderbury Amesbury Ash Cricklade Wootton-Bassett Devizes Highworth Swindon Malmesbury Marlborough Pewsey Wilton Alresford Alton Andover Basingstoke Catherington Christchurch Droxford Fareham Fordingbridge Hartley Wintney Havant Hursley Kingsclere Lymington New Forest New Winchester Petersfield Portsea Island Ringwood Romsey South Stoneham Stockbridge Whitchurch Isle of Wight Henley Eton High Wycombe Battle Chailey Cuckfield Eastbourne East Grinstead Hailsham Hastings Horsham Lewes Midhurst Newhaven Petworth Rye Steyning Thakeham Ticehurst Uckfield Westbourne Firle Westhampnett Cirencester Tetbury Dorking Godstone Guildford Hambledon Reigate Poole Wareham Purbeck Wimborne Cranborne Loddon and Clavering King's Lynn Hargham Hunstanton |
People | Parker, Henry Walter Parry, W E Lewis, Thomas Frankland Chadwick, Edwin Mitchell, Sir Thomas Livingstone |
Additional Information | Use the corresponding MH 33 Register of correspondence linked below to help search within this volume. |
Library/Archive | The National Archives, UK |
Copyright and Source Archive | Images including crown copyright images reproduced by courtesy of The National Archives, London, England. www.nationalarchives.gov.uk |
This correspondence document is linked to |
[Register of Correspondence for Assistant Commissioners Kay, Mott, Neave and Parker, 1834-1846] [Register of Correspondence for Assistant Commissioners Parry, Pigott, Pilkington, Power, Revans, Senior and Stevens, 1834-1846] |