Victorian Bournemouth (193) examines the significant rise in bookkeepers in Bournemouth from 1881-1891, correlating their presence with business success. Mostly young, unmarried women pursued bookkeeping as an alternative to traditional roles. Key sectors employing bookkeepers included hotels and butchers, illustrating women’s increasing role in professional office settings and contributing to business prosperity.
Victorian Bournemouth (177) charts aspects of how Moordown experienced rapid growth from an empty heath to a busy suburb.
Social difference expressed through civic action Introduction Victorian Bournemouth (63) explores differences in the social backgrounds and personal networks of the antagonists in this struggle (1865). An unofficial ‘sanitary committee’, led by the Sanatorium’s physicians, attempted to improve Bournemouth’s drainage system. The town’s Improvement Commission opposed them. Affluent and well-connected, the rebellious doctors brought pressure […]
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, […]