Types of Sources (2a and 2b)

• What type of local source can be used to provide useful statistics?

  Housing, workhouse, council and employment records
• What source can be used to record who lives at an address, how old they are, and what job they do every 10 years?

  The census
• What source investigated poverty in London between 1886 and 1903?


  Charles Booth's survey
• What local source can be used to find first-hand information about crimes?

  Local police records
• What source can be used to provide information about injuries sustained during murder cases?

  Coroners' reports
• What source can be used to see Whitechapel?

  Photographs
• What local source can be used to find stories that residents would find interesting?

  London newspapers
• What national source can be used to find information about important trials, defendants information, nature of the crime and punishment received?

  Old Bailey records
• What national source can be used to find information about the types of crimes committed and whether criminals are repeat offenders, since 1869?

  Records of crime and police investigations
• What national source can be used to understand the feeling of the general public about topics, the government or individuals since 1841?

  Punch magazine cartoons
• What national source can be used to find out about an important enough story that the whole nation would be interested?

  National newspapers