A documentary study of Victorian Bath No.2

Reference Number: PP/175
Level of Description: Item
Title: A documentary study of Victorian Bath No.2
Creator(s) & Administrative History: Various: Author
Date: 1979-1980
Description: The work of a Bristol University Extra-Mural and W. E. A. class conducted by Graham Davis during the year 1979-1980. Contains the following: Privelege and Privation in Bath, 1847-51 by Connie Smith; The Police and crime (1850-1860) in Bath by Eual Lane; Bath's provision for children of the 'perishing and dangerous classes'-1848-1880 by Margaret Taylor (a short account of child criminality in Bath including information on the Bath School of Industry in St. James's Street, pp. 8-9, The Penitentiary in Walcot, pp. 9-11; the Sutcliffe school, pp. 12-13; Limpley Stoke Reformatory for Girls, pp. 13-15; Somerset Certified Industrial Home for Boys, pp. 15-17); The Bath Parliamentary Elections 1855-1868 by Keith Jones; Walcot Wesleyan Methodist Church by Joan Eades (see pp. 11-14 for information on the Shum family of Bath); Tipple and temperance or The Public houses and Temperence Societies in Bath 1850-1900 by Frank Grafton; Sudy of the Baths and Pump Room Committee 1858-1863; Emily Wood's diary by Sylvia Joyce (extracts from the 1877 diary of 22- year-old Emily Wood of 6 Orange Grove, Bath describing her visit to relatives in Austrailia)
Subject: Diaries
Disadvantaged youth
Juvenile delinquency
Methodists
Parliamentary elections
Public houses
Spas
Temperance societies