The length of time involved in an apprenticeship – often seven or even ten years – inevitably meant that there were problems, some more serious than others. The records cared ...
The 1827 ‘Dietary’ for inmates of the workhouse in the Shipston Union survives in the care of Warwickshire County Record Office.1 This was a directive from the Poor Law Commissioners ...
April 26th: 1772 at a vestry then held twas agreed To Inoculate all the poor Inhabitants being Parishioners that are willing to be done by a subscription for that purpose ...
Whilst indulging my obsession with chairs, I was trawling through the online collections of the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) when I stumbled on a chair, and then a set ...