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WEBB: First World War Poverty Relief papers
GB 0097 COLL MISC 0242 · 1914-1915

Papers concerning wartime measures for the relief of distress.

 Webb , (Martha) Beatrice , 1858-1943 , wife of 1st Baron Passfield , social reformer and historian Webb , Sidney James , 1859-1947 , 1st Baron Passfield , social reformer and historian
National Committee for the Prevention of Destitution
GB 0097 COLL MISC 0862 · Collection · 1910-1911

Papers relating to the Royal Commission on the Poor Law, the Minority Report and the National Committee for the Prevention of Destitution, including a paper by Sidney Webb "Suggestions and Hypotheses".

 National Committee for the Prevention of Destitution
Irish Poor Law records
GB 0097 COLL MISC 0511 · Collection · 1807-1848

Volumes 1-2. Westport Union, minute book of the Board of Guardians 1840-1846. Volumes 3-4. Castlebar Union, minute book of the Board of Guardians 1845-1847. Volume 5. Poor law account book. (No locality given but note on end paper "Cork") 1814-1823. Volume 6. General account of expenditure at the House of Industry, Cork.

 Castlebar Board of Poor Law Guardians Westport Board of Poor Law Guardians Cork Board of Poor Law Guardians
Hipperholme with Brighouse Township meetings
GB 0097 COLL MISC 0390 · Collection · 1813-1872

Copy of the minutes of the Hipperholme with Brighouse townships meetings, in the possession of Brighouse Corporation, copied in 1929. The meetings' main concerns were poor relief, roads and local tax assessment.

 Hipperholme with Brighouse Township
Government Committee on the Prevention and Relief of Distress
GB 0097 COLL MISC 0803 · Collection · 1914-1915

Minutes and papers of the Government Committee on the Prevention and Relief of Distress consequent to the outbreak of the First World War.

 Government Committee on the Prevention and Relief of Distress