Victorian Bournemouth (195) provides a summary of the recent subjects and themes covered in the last quarter’s articles.
Tag: Victorian history
Victorian Bournemouth (193): bookkeepers
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 (187): 1880s theatre (1)
Victorian Bournemouth (187) surveys the cultural and commercial terrain deterring professional theatrical productions until the 1880s.
Victorian Bournemouth (185): Big Dogs (1)
Victorian Bournemouth (185) traces how successful local businessmen, from humble origins, stepped into wider civic and community roles.
Victorian Bournemouth (184): artisans
Victorian Bournemouth (184) finds artisans in increasing number practising a widening array of trades and crafts during the 1880s.
Victorian Bournemouth (182): Q2 summary
Victorian Bournemouth (182) summarises articles that touched on working people and different aspects of their lives.
Victorian Bournemouth (181): workhouse pictures
Victorian Bournemouth (181) finds compassion on occasion softening the dark prejudice with which Guardians managed the local workhouse.
Victorian Bournemouth (180): workhouse Guardians
Victorian Bournemouth (180) observes how Guardians of its Union workhouse reacted to challenges occurring during the 1880s.
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 (178): early Moordown (2)
Victorian Bournemouth (178) resumes exploring the early years whereby an area of heath underwent rapid urban development to become Moordown.