Victorian Bournemouth (161) explores how social backgrounds of Improvement Commissioners affected attaining the municipal charter (1890).
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Victorian Bournemouth (159): municipal incorporation (1)
Victorian Bournemouth (159) introduces articles that address different aspects of the process whereby the resort incorporated into a borough (1890).
Victorian Bournemouth (158): socio-economic trends (1880s)
Victorian Bournemouth (158) uses demography and genealogy to sketch the area’s socio-economic development during the 1880s.
Victorian Bournemouth (156): Q4 summary
Victorian Bournemouth (156) surveys articles published in the fourth quarter, covering different aspects of society at all levels.
Victorian Bournemouth (154): poor children
Victorian Bournemouth (154) explores the lives of children found in the Christchurch Union Workhouse school at Tuckton in 1881.
Victorian Bournemouth (153): early bicycles
Victorian Bournemouth (153) explores the early history of bicycles in the resort: manufacturers, dealers, clubs, consumers.
Victorian Bournemouth (152): the Triangle, 1870s
Victorian Bournemouth (152) surveys the area known as The Triangle, an offshoot of Commercial Road, which emerged during the 1870s.
Victorian Bournemouth (151): cabs and cabbies
Victorian Bournemouth (151) explores the social profiles belonging to the increasing number of men driving cabs throughout the resort.
Victorian Bournemouth (148): Oxford Road (3)
Victorian Bournemouth (148) provides a demographic analysis of Oxford Road’s inhabitants during the late nineteenth century.
Victorian Bournemouth (147): Oxford Road (2)
Middling street life Introduction Victorian Bournemouth (147) introduces a short series exploring Oxford Road’s physical and community growth 1871-1901. The articles cover its geographic positioning and the built environment; demographics of the street; its socio-anthropology. It finds a stable, middling community, living in perhaps some comfort, pitched between the working people of Springbourne and the […]