Online: Friday/26th January/2pm
Paul Carter (@theirwrite/The National Archives) will speak on 'Poverty, Language and the New Poor Law (NPL) in Wales, 1834-1871'. How did local officials/paupers react? Did Welsh culture feature in the political/welfare battles.
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Might you help? At Teaching The Voices Of The Victorian Poor (TVVP) we've read 1000s of #pauper , wider poor & advocate letters and would like to put faces to named writers. This is Roland & Betsy Jones, Bala W'house ( #Wales ) inmates c1875. Are there many/any similar pictures out there?
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HistoryHits film 'Great Excavations! Digging Dickens Workhouse' is live this evening! Watch Paul Carter Teaching The Voices Of The Victorian Poor (TVVP) with Tony Robinson History Hit💥 at The National Archives. Focusing on the Strand Workhouse, Paul spoke on pauper letters & how paupers rated their treatment under the law.

So excited that #In_Their_Own_Write : Contesting the New Poor Law, 1834–1900, won the #North_American_Victorian_Studies_Association ’s best book in field prize 2022. A history of the New Poor Law as viewed by the poor.
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Thanks Arts and Humanities Research Council for project funds.

Click here to see Rosie Morris's talk on how The National Archives is giving digital access (transcriptions) to its archival materials & creating new teaching resources to bring history to life for all.
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Latest letter from #The_Voices_of_the_Victorian_Welsh_Poor project. We see that John David Owen wrote in 1844, in #Welsh , from Llandegai near Bangor stating that his mother needed additional relief she being in a state of “filth and wretchedness”. See text in image for details.

Latest letter found through #The_Voices_of_the_Victorian_Welsh_Poor project. We find Hugh and Agnes Rowland, #paupers from #Anglesey , complain that the level of #poor_relief left them “in want” of food. They ask for help without which they will starve. See full text in image.

#Welsh_Pauper_Letters . Robert&Mary Morgan from Llanwrin in the Machynlleth Union - were “scandalously treated.. and maliciously abused” by local poor law guardians. See extended text in 'ALT'.
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Powerful words from William Joseph, Pwllheli Workhouse pauper inmate, to the Poor Law Board, 1845.
Such letters are common - Teaching The Voices Of The Victorian Poor (TVVP) have found thousands of such letters across England & Wales.
For more on this research see:
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Here is a link to an extended Ten Minute Talk (really 15 minutes) - part of a series from BALH.
Here Helen Palmer, Outreach Officer for #Wales , walks us through the role of #workhouses in Victorian Welsh society and what daily life was like there.
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Thanks to the Clements Hall History Group for their Blog on the Voices of the Victorian Poor resource.
1000s of pauper, wider poor and advocates letters resource for the Victorian New Poor Law period.
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Really enjoyed the launch of the #New_Poor_Law educational resource #Voices_of_the_Victorian_Poor and our new book #In_Their_Own_Write . Both are based on 000s of pauper letters.
Joint The National Archives and Nottingham Trent University projects
Projects funded by Arts and Humanities Research Council

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@theirwrite (now Aberystwyth University, Nottingham Trent University, The National Archives) have been working their way through 0000s of pages of Welsh poor law letters & came across 3 female overseers in the 1850s/60s in the St Asaph Union. This seems concentrated in place/time. Anyone else found this at this time?

For all #historyteacher /s. Feel free to come to the book & online education resource launch at TNA on 22nd Feb 1-3pm. Based on 1000s of pauper letters. Staff who built the resource will demo it & introduce you to the original letters which underpin it.
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A favourite from #TeachingTheVoicesOfTheVictorianPoor . 1842 - Thomas Henshaw wrote to the Poor Law Commission from Ilkeston. He asked not for charity but “that you will afford me.. redress”. A pauper writer - his letter is positively 'drips' with claims to rights and citizenship.

Hi Jackie, that's grand. Its also a lesson to us all that such records might still be 'out there' waiting for us.

The very poor left little in terms 'a record'. #Teaching_the_Voices_of_the_Victorian_Poor sources 1000s of letters of English/Welsh #paupers for #history_teachers + others to use online. We launch in a few weeks + would love to see you there. See our current pinned tweet 4details