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Total number of records: 54

Count of Collection group

Collection groupCount
Brotherton Collection51
Gypsy, Traveller and Roma Collections1
Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society1

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
poor laws54
almshouses6
public welfare6
poor4
municipal incorporation3
municipal corporations2
public welfare administration2
chartism1
church work with the poor1
farms1

Count of Place

PlaceCount
Great Britain2
Ireland1
Sculcoates (England)1
Sheffield (England)1

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Roberts, Samuel (1763-1848)36
Great Britain7
Sheffield Union. Board of Guardians5
Parker, Hugh, D. 18614
Dunn, Thomas (Alderman of Sheffield)3
Sheffield Union3
Fabian Society (Great Britain)2
Lloyd, C M (1878-1946)2
Parker, John, 1799-18812
Peel, Robert, Sir, 1788-18502

Count of Earliest date

Earliest dateCount
From 180046
From 19007

Count of Latest date

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Up to 189946
Up to 19997

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Sutro collection : Bibliography of books and pamphlets on the English poor laws (1639-1890)

Sutro Library; Work Projects Administration (Calif.)

1940

Mimeographed.

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Observations on the impolicy, abuses, and false interpretation of the Poor Laws : and on the reports of the two houses of Parliament

Sheffield, John Baker Holroyd Earl of (1735-1821)

1818

Offprint from The Pamphleteer, vol.13, no.25, pp.[113]-138.

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Sculcoates : manor, church, and parish

Travis-Cook, J

[1909]

Press-cutting, extracted from the Hull News for December 4th, 1909, and mounted.

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Poor law reform

Great Britain. Ministry of Reconstruction

1919

Cover title.

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The abolition of the poor law

Lloyd, C M (1878-1946); Standing Joint Committee of the Independent Labour Party; Fabian Society (Great Britain)

1912

At head of title: "War against poverty".

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Report of a conference of Poor-Law Guardians of unions in the West-Riding of Yorkshire, held at the Victoria Station Hotel, Sheffield, January 13th, 1876

Sheffield Union. Board of Guardians

1876

"Chairman: W. Spencer Stanhope, Esq., M.P., Hon. Secs. Mr John Barras and Mr Joseph Spencer."

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The first step to a Poor Law for Ireland

Ward, H G (1797-1860); Great Britain. Parliament

1837

Includes an appendix, containing resolutions of the Select Committee on the Disposal of Lands in the British Colonies.

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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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