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
Poor Law Commission and successors: Legal Department and successors: Orders
Catalogue reference: HLG 26
What's it about?
HLG 26
Orders of the Poor Law Commission and Board, and Local Government Board, the Ministry of Health, the Ministry of Local Government and Planning, the Ministry of Housing and Local Government and the Department of the Environment relating to various...
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- HLG 26
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Title (The name of the record)
- Poor Law Commission and successors: Legal Department and successors: Orders
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1842-1978
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Description (What the record is about)
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Orders of the Poor Law Commission and Board, and Local Government Board, the Ministry of Health, the Ministry of Local Government and Planning, the Ministry of Housing and Local Government and the Department of the Environment relating to various aspects of local administration. These include the regulation of schools, asylums, district auditors, and of the duties and powers of poor law unions and local authorities generally.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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Registers and indexes to orders issued up to 1952 are in HLG 66
There are additional miscellaneous sealed plans in HLG 111
Sealed plans relating to sealed orders are to be found in HLG 23
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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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- Department of the Environment, 1970-1997
- Local Government Board, 1871-1919
- Ministry of Housing and Local Government, 1951-1970
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 1138 volume(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- Open
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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
- Legal
- Housing
- Poverty
- Local Government
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C8721/
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