Record revealed
Letter from a ‘destitute’ man to the Poor Law Commission
In this letter, Thomas Henshaw of Derbyshire complained of his treatment by local officials who denied him welfare despite his ‘most distressing’ situation.
Series
Local Government Board and predecessors: Subject Indexes of Correspondence
Catalogue reference: MH 15
What's it about?
MH 15
This series contains indexes of selected subjects dealt with in correspondence and papers of the Poor Law Commission and Board and the Local Government Board, and noted precedents in the Index Department.
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- MH 15
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Title (The name of the record)
- Local Government Board and predecessors: Subject Indexes of Correspondence
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1836-1920
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains indexes of selected subjects dealt with in correspondence and papers of the Poor Law Commission and Board and the Local Government Board, and noted precedents in the Index Department.
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Separated material (A cross-reference between records that are related by provenance but now kept separately)
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Most papers after 1900 no longer survive; those which do have been re-registered on Ministry of Health files (now in various MH and HLG series) and can no longer be identified from the references cited in these indexes.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
- Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- English
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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
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- Local Government Board, 1871-1919
- Poor Law Board, 1847-1871
- Poor Law Commission, 1834-1847
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 107 volume(s)
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Subjects (Categories and themes found in our collection (our subject list is under development, and some records may have no subjects or fewer than expected))
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- Topics
- Poverty
- Local Government
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C10858/
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Local Government Board and predecessors: Subject Indexes of Correspondence
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