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HIST382: The Surveillance Society: Official Records, Life and Death in Victorian and Edwardian Britain

Special Subject (60 credits)

The lives of the peoples of Britain changed forever as a result of the industrialisation that occurred through the nineteenth century. In response to these changes the Victorians become expert record keepers, devising sources including: the census which counted how many people lived in which places and what conditions they lived in; vital registration records which counted numbers of births, marriages and deaths and, most importantly, how old people were when they died and what caused their deaths; and Poor Law records which recorded how many people were being relived from the worst effects of poverty and how much was being spent on doing so. These records tell us much about issues such as population growth, fertility decline, migration within Britain and beyond, employment, industry, poverty and inequality. This course will explore what Victorian sources tell us about these topics over this crucial time period.

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