| Welcome to The Briercliffe Society Forum http://www.briercliffesociety.co.uk/talkback/ |
|
| Poverty in North-East Lancashire in 1843 http://www.briercliffesociety.co.uk/talkback/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=1966 |
Page 1 of 1 |
| Author: | Mel [ Sat Jan 10, 2009 6:38 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Poverty in North-East Lancashire in 1843 |
Rex Watson published an analysis in 1995. It is available (free) in pdf format at http://www.localpopulationstudies.org.u ... _28-44.pdf |
|
| Author: | Gloria [ Sat Jan 10, 2009 7:22 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Poverty in North-East Lancashire in 1843 |
An interesting read. |
|
| Author: | charon10 [ Sat Jan 10, 2009 7:26 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Poverty in North-East Lancashire in 1843 |
Mel, Extraordinary coincidence! I sent a message about Rex's paper to one of my relations just a couple of days ago: wish I'd thought to post it here too. The paper is well worth a look, especially for those of us whose ancestors suffered in those hard times, as some of mine did - and died young. Charon |
|
| Author: | rexwatson [ Sat Jan 10, 2009 9:45 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Poverty in North-East Lancashire in 1843 |
Thanks to Mel for setting this up. There are two editorial errors, one serious ! On p31, line 9 : 'likely' not 'unlikely'. On p37, Fig 3 vertical axis should read 'EARNINGS', not 'AMOUNT OF RELIEF' (the serious error !). Let me explain a little about Local Population Studies (still going strong). It publishes broadly historical demography pieces, and typical contributors are keen amateurs like me ! (at least that is how it was 13 years and more ago). See website for Local Population Studies Society. Thus I am not a historian, I am a (3/4 retired) maths lecturer. Hence all the number crunching in the article. Be brave.... Rex |
|
| Author: | Mel [ Sun Jan 11, 2009 8:10 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Poverty in North-East Lancashire in 1843 |
I think your article is a very interesting combination of maths and history. I hated history when I was in school but thoroughly enjoyed my maths lessons. I wonder if I would have taken more notice in my history lessons if we had been set a project like this? I enjoy looking at such in depth statistics but to get these combining with info about Briercliffe - I'm in heaven!! One question re: the Ann Ecroyd notebooks - where are they kept? |
|
| Author: | rexwatson [ Sun Jan 11, 2009 7:18 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Poverty in North-East Lancashire in 1843 |
The Farrer Papers, a very extensive collection, are at Manchester Central Library, archive reference L1. See the website. Ann Ecroyd was related, I can't recall the actual connection. There are other notebooks, but as the Ecroyds lived at Edge End, it isn't surprising that most are just for Marsden. I did look once upon a time at some of the others, equally interesting (if less neat), as I do have WATSONs at Southfield and around. Rex |
|
| Page 1 of 1 | All times are UTC [ DST ] |
| Powered by phpBB® Forum Software © phpBB Group https://www.phpbb.com/ |
|