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Breaking news… Apologies for the short notice but we have just learned that Paul Carter is running a webinar via the National Archives entitled ‘Why did people fear the Victorian Workhouse?’ Paul lead the team to which some society members have made huge contributions by cataloging the correspondence from the Bromsgrove Poor Law Union to the Board in London. . . . → Read More: 12th May – National Archives Webinar – ‘Why did people fear the Victorian Workhouse?’  Visit to Norgrove Court – August 2013 Once again we were fortunate to have a lovely summer day for our afternoon visit to this gem of a building. Much of Norgrove Court dates from 1649 and it is strange to realise that a building of such importance should have been being constructed in . . . → Read More: Trip Report – Norgrove Court (August 2013)  Didn’t we have a lovely time the day we went to … Deene Park. The 2013 Clent History Society day trip was blessed with a lovely sunny day, a rarity indeed this June. We headed for Deene Park in Northamptonshire. This delightful house is built round a courtyard and is mostly sixteenth century . . . → Read More: Trip Report – Deene Park (June 2013)  The cataloguing of the correspondence between the Poor Law Board/Commission and our local union of Bromsgrove continues to provide some fascinating material. In the summer of 1849 there was a great deal of concern about cholera. A tragic tale unfolds of an ill child on a canal boat passing through Stoke Prior. He died . . . → Read More: Update on our Poor Law Research  As some of you will know the National Archives at Kew has digitised a tranche of documents relating to the Bromsgrove Poor Law Union of which Clent was a part. These are fully searchable and entirely free to access. The British Association for Local History has assisted with getting funding for further digitisation and . . . → Read More: More findings from the Poor Law Archives; Debts and Lunatics The project to document the lives of the poor in the 1800’s, led by the National Archives, is set to make a promising bid for continued research in our region. . . . → Read More: Pauper Prisons – Pauper Palaces. Poor Law update |
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