Catalogue Project for the Southwell (Nottinghamshire) Poor Law Union Correspondence, 1834 - 1871

The Work of the Southwell Workhouse Research Group
This section of The National Archives website is a ‘work in progress’ report on a current project to provide a word searchable calendar (part of TNA Electronic Catalogue) the correspondence between the guardians of the Southwell Poor Law Union in Nottinghamshire and the poor law authorities based in London between 1834 and 1871. In addition the actual images will be provided free via our documentsonline service.

The Poor Law Union Correspondence is held in MH 12 and the current level of description (volumes are listed chronologically by Poor Law Union with no indication of subjects, people or individual places) makes these records almost unusable to all but: the most tenacious of researchers. The result is that a major source of social history spends most of its time on the archival shelves.

For further details of this project please email:

• paul.carter@nationalarchives.gov.uk
• ann.morton@nationalarchives.gov.uk
• Or to find out more about the best-preserved workhouse in England, visit The National Trust website

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The Overview

Southwell Workhouse and the Southwell Workhouse Research Group

Correspondence