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29th October 2019
We’ve been examining the role of 19th century outdoor relief - publicly-financed poor relief - given in kind and/or in money, to allow poor people to remain in their own homes. Read more
23rd October 2019
If you look at maps of the Clementhorpe area at around the end of the nineteenth century, you will see a number of large buildings variously labelled ‘chemical manure works’, ‘confectionery works’, ‘thread mill’, ‘glassworks’, ‘shipyard’ and so forth. Read more
19th October 2019
We wrote about the Oberhoffer family three years ago, when we were looking at aliens and their families in our area in the First World War. Read more
29th October 2019
We’ve been examining the role of 19th century outdoor relief - publicly-financed poor relief - given in kind and/or in money, to allow poor people to remain in their own homes. Read more
23rd October 2019
If you look at maps of the Clementhorpe area at around the end of the nineteenth century, you will see a number of large buildings variously labelled ‘chemical manure works’, ‘confectionery works’, ‘thread mill’, ‘glassworks’, ‘shipyard’ and so forth. Read more
19th October 2019
We wrote about the Oberhoffer family three years ago, when we were looking at aliens and their families in our area in the First World War. Read more
Our new research project will investigate poverty in Nunnery Lane in the mid 19th century. View project
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The Wood family of the River Ouse Read more
Betty Stevenson was one of our local WW1 heroines, who died in 1918, we featured her here https://t.co/ifRrwF6iv6 https://t.co/cL5qdWItpZ
We'll be launching our new book soon, 'Shadows in the Bricks: the old shops of South Bank in York', on sale in loca… https://t.co/Z8uYouNyaT
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