The Bedfordshire Farm Worker in the Nineteenth Century
Edited by Nigel E. Agar
Publication date:
01 January 1981Length of book:
133 pagesPublisher
Bedfordshire Historical Record SocietyDimensions:
234x156mmISBN-13: 9781800107489
The Bedfordshire Farm Worker in the Nineteenth Century
This is a collection of extracts from Parliamentary Papers and documentary material in Bedfordshire County Record Office to describe the life of the farm worker in nineteenth-century Bedfordshire. A general overview is followed by sections concerned with the poor law, the life of the labourer, migration and emigration, housing, access to land and education, and the Agricultural Labourers’ Union.
The volume begins with a tribute In Memoriam to Harold Owen White, secretary of BHRS 1965-1980.
This is a collection of extracts from Parliamentary Papers and documentary material in Bedfordshire County Record Office to describe the life of the farm worker in nineteenth-century Bedfordshire. A general overview is followed by sections concerned with the poor law, the life of the labourer, migration and emigration, housing, access to land and education, and the Agricultural Labourers’ Union.
The volume begins with a tribute In Memoriam to Harold Owen White, secretary of BHRS 1965-1980.