Search results found for: "paul carter" VideoLiving the Poor Life – Paul Carter talks about some stories from the filesSaturday 16 April 2011Paul Carter, The National Archives’ principal modern domestic record’s specialist, talks about some of...On the RecordPauper VoicesThursday 25 April 2024It’s often impossible to find direct accounts of poor people in the historical record,...AudioBig Ideas Series: ‘In Their Own Write: Welfare, Discipline and Pauper Agency in the Nineteenth Century’Tuesday 12 December 2017In this seminar, Dr Paul Carter introduces his new research project which he is undertaking...AudioWebinar: Why did people fear the Victorian workhouse?Wednesday 3 September 2014The workhouse was a major feature in the lives of the poor, whether or...Audio‘…we may lie and die in a land of plenty…’: The Victorian poor in their own wordsTuesday 1 April 2014In all but the most specialist accounts of Victorian histories the poor are often...AudioOur ancestors and the fear of the Victorian workhouseTuesday 6 March 2012In 1834 the British government introduced the Poor Law Amendment Act (the introduction of...Audio‘A low artful wicked man’: poverty riots and bread, the response of government to the crises of the 1790sFriday 25 November 2011The 1790s was a watershed decade in British history with the continuation of population...VideoLiving the poor life – power relationsFriday 20 August 2010Paul Carter talks about how poor law records uncovered illustrate power relations in the...
