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Category Archives: Social History
Meeting – Monday 14 March, 7:30pm
Members’ presentations: Three short talks (15-20 minutes each), reporting the results to date of research being undertaken by Lewes History Group members: 1. Peter Atkins: Lewes at the Old Bailey 2. Ann Holmes: All change or more of the same? … Continue reading
Posted in Legal History, Lewes, Local History, Research Resources, Social History
Tagged newspapers, Old Bailey, paupers, Poor Law, Poverty
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Lewes History Group: Bulletin 7, (11 February 2011)
1. Next meeting on Monday 21 February 2011: Mark Perry-Nash 2. Malling Brooks from Cliffe Hill 3. Lewes History Group Organisation 4. Lewes History Group Accounts, 2010 5. Lewes Coaching Routes, 1845 6. Grim Discovery at the Priory 7. The … Continue reading
Posted in Lewes, Local History, Social History, Transport History, Uncategorized
Tagged Battle of Lewes, coaches, graves, Lewes Priory, Malling Brooks, Offham Downs, postcards, railway development, railway station, railways, The Friars
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Meeting – Monday 21 February, 7:30pm [Programme change]
John Kay: Settlement Records in Lewes Parish Chests Under the Old Poor Law everyone was settled in a particular parish, in the same way that today we are citizens of a particular country. You might be allowed to live outside … Continue reading
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Tagged Poor Law
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