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KEY TOPIC 4: C+P and LE c1900-PRESENT
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What do housing and employment records indicate?
Overcrowding and
types
of jobs
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What information might council records provide?
Living conditions
and sanitation focus
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How
often
does the census occur?
Every ten years
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What details does the census collect about individuals?
Names,
ages
,
sex
,
occupation
, birthplace
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Who was Charles Booth?
A philanthropist who studied
poverty
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What was the focus of Charles Booth's survey in 1886?
Poverty in
London
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What conclusion did Charles Booth reach about poverty in the East End of London?
35%
lived in abject poverty
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What do workhouse records provide insight into?
Poverty levels
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What information can local police records provide?
Crimes
committed and
arrests
made
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Why might local police records be misleading?
Depend on
officer's reports
and
arrests
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What do coroners' reports reveal?
How people died and
illness levels
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Why were photographs rare among the general public in the past?
Cameras
were heavy and
expensive
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What did London newspapers report on?
Crimes
and police investigations
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How did London newspapers often portray police investigations?
They were often
anti-police
and
sensationalized
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What are freedom licenses?
Official release papers for
prisoners
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What do freedom licenses provide records of?
Convictions
and punishments
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What do national newspapers detail?
Crime
and police
investigations
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Why might records of crime and police investigations be misleading?
Depend on
officer's
reports and
arrests
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What was the Old Bailey?
The
Central Criminal Court
in
London
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What type of records does the Old Bailey keep?
Records of
trials
and witness statements
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What do Punch cartoons illustrate?
Attitudes towards
government
and affairs
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Who were James Bent and Richard Jervis?
Two
Lancashire
policemen who wrote memoirs
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What do the memoirs of Bent and Jervis provide?
A
detailed
picture
of
police work
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What common issue did Bent and Jervis highlight in their memoirs?
Violence
between police and locals
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