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From XreferBlog:

Volunteers bring to life the world of the Victorian poor
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/news/stories/224.htm?news=rss
"Volunteers around England and Wales are embarking on an exciting project to unearth the often sad and gruesome world of the Victorian poor. Led by The National Archives, the 'Living the Poor Life' project will involve more than 200 local and family historians in cataloguing memos, letters and reports held within the records of 22 Poor Law Unions....

Date: 2008-11-11 03:03 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] helwen.livejournal.com
Thanks! I haven't read any Victorian history in ages, so it's been interesting poking around again...

Date: 2008-11-11 04:47 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] stringlady.livejournal.com
Cool!

That's actually what I studied in college. My major concentration was 19th century English history, and I can still tell you quite a bit about what it was to be a poor woman living in London... This will be a wonderful resource!

In the past, all most of us had was accounts by middle and upper class observers, who tend to write about the quaint, pathetic, and interesting (to them.)

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