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Discover Your Ancestors Periodical - Issue 18 (October 2014)
Issue 18 features: * Housekeeping through history: Margaret Powling shows how housekeeping books can illuminate social history * Celebration of place: A new one-place studies conference * Wounded in WW1: Explore 1.3m casualty records online * Sea changes: Karen Foy on the many ways we can learn about our migrant ancestors * A walk in the park: The development of public parks * The slippery poll: 18th and 19th century poll books revealed * History in the details: Cloaks and mantles * Places in Focus: Norwich More Info
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Susanna Morgan: Campaigning for reform in early 19th century Bristol, by Michael Whitfield
After the end of the Napoleonic Wars, Britons were increasingly aware of many social ills; and this awareness contributed to the great wave of reforms which followed the passing of the 1832 Reform Bill. One of the most active of Bristol’s campaigners for reform was Susanna Morgan. She wrote and published on several major causes, and took an active part in new institutions. But, as a woman, she o...More Info
D Edward Long Fox: radical and mental health pioneer
Dr Edward Long Fox (1761-1835) was born into a quaker family in Cornwall. He came to Bristol in 1785. He engaged in local politics, and led an inquiry into the Bristol Bridge riots. He pioneered a humane approach to the treatment of mentally ill people. He built an asylum at Brislington with innovative features and 'romantic' landscape gardens, and a therapeutic spa at Knightstone, Weston super ma...More Info
The Bath Dispensaries: healthcare for the poor before the NHS
Before the NHS, dispensaries were the main source of non-residential medical care for poor people. Michael Whitfield describes the dispensaries in Bath from the early 19th century, and draws some comparisons with the national picture. included is an index of practitioners noted in the text.
Scandal at the surgery: the other Dr Jenner of Berkeley
Biography of Henry Jenner 1767-1851, brother of the pioneering vaccinator. He supported his brother's practice and brought relief to thousands. He entered into a fake second marriage, and abandoned the child from it.
Handel Cossham, 1824-1890
papers related to Handel Cossham, south Gloucestershire, Bristol and Bath mine owner, geologist, financier, local preacher, tempwerance campaigner, local and national politician and philanthropist.