A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
In general, the Poor Law Board and its successor the Local Government
Board provided detailed bi-annual statistics of numbers of paupers in
each county in its Annual Report and similar statistics for the
individual unions in a separate Return to Parliament.
The sheer volume of this material poses considerable problems, and
building up systematic coverage has proved difficult: our transcriptions
are selective by level of reporting unit, area, period and variables
transcribed.
Note that the matching of union-level data to the AUO has had considerable further work since
the last edits in November 2015, including adding variant names of unions to the AUO from the
Returns to Parliament. However, a little more remains to be done, especially for Scotland.
| Table | Type | Contents |
|---|---|---|
| plaw_1920_21 | Raw Data | Poor law statistics for 1920 and 1921 for poor law unions in England and Wales. |
| plaw_c | Raw Data | County-level data pauper statistics from the Poor Law Board/LGB's Annual Reports |
| plaw_c_full | Raw Data | A FULL transcription of county pauperage statistics from the Annual Reports of the Poor Law Board, and later the Local Government Board. |
| plaw_iw | Raw Data | Inter-war poor law statistics, at union or LGD level. |
| plaw_scot_full_abs | Raw Data | Full transcription of parish-level Scottish poor law statistics (Abstract 1890-1915). |
| plaw_scot_full_genabs | Raw Data | Full transcription of parish-level Scottish poor law statistics (General Abstract 1845-1889). |
| plaw_scot_iw | Raw Data | Scottish poor law statistics from the inter-war period. |
| plaw_u | Raw Data | Selected union-level pauper statistics from the Poor Law/Local Government Board's Returns |
| plaw_u_full | Raw Data | FULL transcript of union-level pauperage statistics from the Poor Law Board's Returns |
| plaw_u_july_1907_11 | Raw Data | Union-level pauper statistics from the Local Government Board's Returns to Parliament for July, in 1907 onwards. |