Victorian Bournemouth (196) uses auctioneers’ advertisements for house contents to learn about the taste exhibited by the resort’s residents.
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Victorian Bournemouth (179): ‘martyr royalty’
Victorian Bournemouth (179) analyses the kinship and social profiles of Tolpuddle natives recorded as Springbourne residents during 1881.
Victorian Bournemouth (163): Joe Weathercock
Victorian Bournemouth (163) explores a short-lived satirical column which appeared in the resort’s local press during the 1880s.
Victorian Bournemouth (157): the 1880s
Victorian Bournemouth (157) introduces articles which analyse different aspect of the resort’s history during the 1880s.
Property people at early Victorian Bournemouth
Introduction Property people during Victorian Bournemouth’s early period began with gentlemen investors but by its close professional financial institutions had appeared. Along the way, builder-developers featured to no small extent. Two social features ran through this process: a range of social types; the existence and influence of kinship groups. Respectable commerce Professionals Bournemouth’s Victorian historian, […]