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Total number of records: 86

Top 10: Subject

Subject	Count
poor laws	36
human dissection	13
riots	10
public welfare	6
slavery	6
capital punishment	5
almshouses	4
children	4
chimney sweeps	3
municipal incorporation	3

Count of Place

Place	Count
Great Britain	4
Eyam (England)	2
Sheffield (England)	2
Ireland	1

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisations	Count
Roberts, Samuel (1763-1848)	86
Great Britain	7
Parker, Hugh, D. 1861	6
Roberts, Samuel	5
Church of England	3
Dunn, Thomas (Alderman of Sheffield)	3
Peace Society (London, England)	3
Voster Amicus	3
Bailey, Samuel, 1791-1870	2
Buckingham, James Silk, 1786-1855	2

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Lessons for statesmen : with anecdotes respecting them, calculated to preserve the aristocracy from destruction and the country from ruin

Roberts, Samuel (1763-1848)

1846

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Truth; or, the fall of Babylon the great : being an address to the ratepayers of this kingdom, and particularly to those of Sheffield and Ecclesall Bierlow, on the greatest curse that ever was inflicted by its legislature on any nation, the Poor Law Amendment Act

Roberts, Samuel (1763-1848)

1845

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The peers, the people, and the poor

Retired tradesman; Roberts, Samuel (1763-1848)

1838

By Samuel Roberts(?).

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The peers, the people, and the poor

Retired tradesman; Roberts, Samuel (1763-1848)

1838

By Samuel Roberts(?).

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The voice of an octagenerian, denouncing wickedness in high places : addressed to Sir Robert Peel

Roberts, Samuel (1763-1848)

1842

Cover title: The voice of an octogenerian [sic].

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The voice of an octagenerian, denouncing wickedness in high places : addressed to Sir Robert Peel

Roberts, Samuel (1763-1848)

1842

Cover title: The voice of an octogenerian [sic].

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Tocsin the third : signs of the times. Addressed to the British legislators

Roberts, Samuel (1763-1848)

1831

Caption title: Signs of the times; or, the first chapter of the English exodus.

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A defence of the Poor Laws : with a plan for the suppression of mendicity, and for the establishment of universal parochial benefit societies

Roberts, Samuel (1763-1848)

1819

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A defence of the Poor Laws : with a plan for the suppression of mendicity, and for the establishment of universal parochial benefit societies

Roberts, Samuel (1763-1848)

1819

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The United States. Professions & practices contrasted : in three letters from John Bull, jun. to his brother Jonathan. Respectfully dedicated to the American Congress, and to British merchants trading in that country

Roberts, Samuel (1763-1848)

[183-?]

Note in the Brotherton Library copy attributes authorship to Samuel Roberts.

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Dissectors dissected : with a plan for obtaining subjects

Roberts, Samuel (1763-1848)

1848

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Dissectors dissected : with a plan for obtaining subjects

Roberts, Samuel (1763-1848)

1848