THEME Social reform and change
Ethel Mary Charles First Female Architect RIBA
The first female architect admitted to the Royal Institution British Architects, was Ethel Mary Charles in 1898, she was one of many ‘firsts’ for women entering male dominated professions
Read MoreHistory of Women and Work
The employment of women through the second half of the C19th and beyond has long been hidden in the data. As more data is digitized and becomes easier to evaluate it is apparent that women had always been employed in an incredibly wide range of occupations. Seek out the women and their hidden occupations in your family history
Read MoreWilliam Wilberforce and the Bettering Society
William Wilberforce was the father of the Reform Movement who encouraged a ‘Better Society’, where decent morals and values created a world of positive outcomes for the poor, where science could be used to make lives better
Read MoreUrban Expansion & Slum Creation
The rapid evolution of urban societies left the poor on the extreme edge of survival. The need for social reform was never greater than during the mid C19th
Read MoreWomen and Suffrage
Women’s suffrage affected generation after generation of women. It took thirty years from the formation of the National Union of Women’s Suffrage Society to the Representation of the People Act in 1928 for all women to have an equal right to vote in the UK
Read MoreFoundling Hospital Collection
Possibly the most poignant collection in London, the Foundling Hospital Collection…
Read MoreFoundling Hospital a home for children…
The Foundling Hospital for children, in many ways, epitomises the change in thinking that came out of the period of Enlightenment. People such as John Locke, stirred the conscience of a society and resulted in a more liberal thinking where deeds and actions spoke loudest.
Read MoreChildren Lost and Found Notices
Lost children of the C19th. How heartbreaking it must have been to lose a child in the seething populace of London but how did a poor family go about finding their lost child. A little piece of ephemera had us on the trail….
Read MoreVictorian Women and the Professions. The Female Doctor
The first female doctors of the C19th. Why were women excluded from the professions in the first half of the C19th and when did it change?
Read MoreDorset and Botany Bay
What connects Dorset and Botany Bay? If any of your family were transported to Australia this will be of interest to you
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