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A History of the County of Oxford
… keeping pace with the rapid urban expansion throughout the country. Oxford lacked the industrial base to maintain such … of bread, and in the wake of similar riots in the West Country. A detachment of Guards was sent from Windsor, and … wealthier citizens often lived out of town and acquired country estates. Sir Joseph Lock, 29 William Jackson, and the …
A History of the County of York
… city suffered less from unemployment than the rest of the country between the wars. The first slump which followed the … In the first place in York after 1901, as in the country generally after 1903, the rate of private … education committee in 1908 being one of the first in the country to appoint a full-time school medical inspector. 55 …
A History of the County of York
… may have declined in numbers, but they still had their country seats in the surrounding countryside and their orders … that had formerly passed through York was bought in the country by contractors for the London market. 27 Of the …
A History of the County of York
… of consignments increased, and the position of York in the country's railway network may well have been a contributory …
A History of the County of York
… of a new workhouse 'as usual we were defeated by all the country guardians mustering up and voting against it'. 60 The … already cited, was made in an attempt to convince the country guardians. When typhus was raging in York amongst the … to 4 doctors 'for services during the cholera'. All the country guardians voted against the proposal and all the city …
A History of the County of York
… 'immensely better'. In this York followed the rest of the country, and like other towns it mitigated poverty and …
A History of the County of York
… linking of York with the growing railway network of the country, the city's political life had already begun to be …
A History of the County of York
… and that severe distress which pervade other parts of the country'. 79 Similar views were advanced in 1841 80 and one … sent to the queen on the prevalence of distress in the country; 92 but between 1842 and 1846 chartism was … the population, compared with 4.4 per cent. over the whole country. The largest union in the city was the Amalgamated …
A History of the County of York
… with the generally increasing rate of urban growth in the country, the city's population rose by 20.5 per cent. In the … from 1801 to 1841. A comparison between the city and the country at large suggests that for that period, with the … 1901– 31 saw York losing population to the rest of the country to the extent of rather more than 5,000 persons. …
A History of the County of York
… the seventies. Moreover it was above the average for the country and above that for the larger towns (see Table 8). In … 19th century the average was lower than that for the whole country, and it was the first fall in the city's death-rate …