Blog post written by Lucile Berset (14 May 2020) If you have been reading our previous weekly blog posts, you are aware that not all the letters in the LALP corpus are …
Anonymous denunciation and defamation at the time of the Poor Law Read MoreBlog post written by Aleksa Kostadinovic (7 May 2020) On April 21st 1820, Richard Josiah Pope, “about 45 or 46 years of age”, was admitted to St. Luke’s Hospital for …
#Mentalhealth Issues of Paupers in Late Modern England Read MoreBlog post written by Andrea Grütter (1 May 2020) On May 1st 1811, Susannah Fuller wrote a letter to the overseers asking for her child’s money to be sent to …
#OnThisDay in 1811 – Susannah Fuller’s Worries about Distance and Money Read MoreBlog post written by Mark Iten (24 April 2020) On this day, April 24th, in the years 1806, 1826 and 1827, three short letters had been written and sent out; …
#OnThisDay in 1809, 1826 and 1827 – Three Letters, Three Different Contents Read MoreBlog post written by Anita Auer (16 April 2020) On 16 June 1832 Henry Goodwin sent a letter from his new place of residence in New York to the overseers …
#PhyicalDistance in 1832 – Leaving the Workhouse and Starting a New Life in the New World Read More