Victorian Bournemouth (148) provides a demographic analysis of Oxford Road’s inhabitants during the late nineteenth century.
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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 […]
Victorian Bournemouth (146): British Indians (4)
Multi-multi-families Introduction Victorian Bournemouth (146) finds public and private links interconnecting the British Indians who settled in the resort during the period 1871-1881. Genealogical analysis provides insights into the social history of Indian natives born to families who had originated in Britain. By the time they arrived in Bournemouth, in some cases, several generations of […]
Victorian Bournemouth (145): British Indians (3)
‘Simla-by-the-sea’ Introduction Victorian Bournemouth (145) explores the way in which British Indians perhaps experienced difficulty after migrating from their native homeland to British society. They may have found alienation and rejection, to escape from which they gravitated to spas, whose soothing climate and exclusive society perhaps reminded them of time they had spent in such […]
Victorian Bournemouth (142): a local long firm
Victorian Bournemouth (142) investigates the report of a criminal long-firm operating in the resort during the 1870s.
Victorian Bournemouth (140): amateur dramatics
Victorian Bournemouth (140) reports on how the Shelley family initiated amateur dramatics in the resort during the 1870s.
Victorian Bournemouth (139): Springbourne (3)
Victorian Bournemouth (139) explores further aspects of the community inhabiting Springbourne, the Bournemouth suburb housing many working people.
Victorian Bournemouth (137): Springbourne, 1881 (1)
Victorian Bournemouth (137) provides demographic and geographic background for further analyses about Springbourne’s population and society as captured by the 1881 census.