| Display title | Nineteenth Century Poverty in England and Wales Project |
| Default sort key | Nineteenth Century Poverty in England and Wales Project |
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| Page creator | WuehlerAC (talk | contribs) |
| Date of page creation | 13:22, 20 October 2009 |
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This attribute controls the content of the description and og:description elements. | One of the key sets of records for those undertaking local, family, social and other historical studies are the poor law union ‘correspondence’ volumes held at The National Archives, England. The collection, consisting of 16,741 large bound volumes, includes hundreds of thousands of letters, reports and memos that tell much about how the poor of England and Wales lived throughout the Victorian period. They include instances of workhouse disturbances, allegations of cruelty to individual paupers, letters referring to children sent to the northern mills, reports on medical matters, accounts of those suffering breakdowns and other mental health problems, and so much more. |