This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Funding
The Professions in Nineteenth-Century Britain
Economic and Social Research Council
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Person ID
500658Full Name
Elizabeth ShipleyGender
FemaleOccupation
SCHOOLMASTERS AND TEACHERS (DEFAULT)Date of Birth
1824Place of Origin
New Lambton, Durham, EnglandDate of Death
Oct-Nov-Dec 1854Place of Death
Chester le Street (reg district), Durham, EnglandTown Sample
MorpethGeneration
1Marriage ID
500591Relationships
502322 (Thomas Purdy : husband), 502325 (Ann [Shipley] : mother), 502324 (Thomas Shipley : father), 502321 (Joseph Robinson Purdy : child), 502326 (Jane Purdy : child), 502327 (Margaret Ann Purdy : child)