- HOW TO FIND SOCIAL BOOTH ARCHIVES PDF
- HOW TO FIND SOCIAL BOOTH ARCHIVES ARCHIVE
- HOW TO FIND SOCIAL BOOTH ARCHIVES SERIES
Searching in the Ref No field for Booth* will bring up all of the archive for browsing. The archive materials can be found by searching our archive catalogue. Various editions of the final published survey can be found via Library Search and searching for 'Life and labour of the people in London'.
Section of a Booth map showing the area around Lincoln's Inn Fields In the catalogue notebooks B169-392 relate to the religious survey. However the focus extended beyond only religious institutions and directly religious matters but also took into account London's broader social and moral make-up. While the majority of the survey data was collected via questionnaires sent to churches and other religious/philanthropic institutions, the information gathered extended beyond immediately religious concerns but also included social and moral forces. The final survey concerned the position of religion in London and the lives of Londoners.
In the catalogue notebooks B82-168 relate to the industry survey. Patterns of work, wage levels and conditions of employment were investigated from a huge range of different London industries from wigmakers to cricketers. The industry survey was carried out initially in conjunction with poverty survey and then formed the basis for a larger separate study. In the catalogue notebooks B1-81 relate to the poverty survey. The information was gathered with the help of School Board visitors from whom Booth's investigators copied information about streets and households relating to their rent, number of rooms lived in, number of children and work situation. The first part of Booth's inquiry was carried out in the East End of London in order to explore and get a sense of the poverty and (un)employment in the area. Sketch by Jesse Argyle showing coal porters at work from a Charles Booth Industry Survey notebook, 1892
The Charles Booth's London website also includes digitised versions of 41 notebooks which include the police notebooks and Jewish notebooks (both part of the religious influences series) and the Stepney Union casebooks (part of the industry series).
HOW TO FIND SOCIAL BOOTH ARCHIVES SERIES
Thematically, the archive falls into three main series - poverty, industry and religious influences - reflecting the structure of the published survey of Life and Labour of the People in London. The majority of the archive consists of over 400 notebooks in which the investigators gathered the information which informed the final published volumes. We also hold copies of the 12 published map sheets as well as the larger, original hand-coloured working copies of these second edition maps. You can see an interactive version of the second edition maps on the Charles Booth's London website. The clear display of Victorian disparities of wealth in London still grips the attention today as it did over a hundred years ago. Probably the most well-known outcome of the project were the Maps Descriptive of London Poverty. Our Charles Booth's London website also contains further resources relating to Booth, including an interactive Booth map which stitches together all 12 of the published map sheets into one seamless whole.
HOW TO FIND SOCIAL BOOTH ARCHIVES PDF
This includes PDF files of the bulk of the notebooks. We have now made the majority of Booth’s notebooks available in digitised formats via LSE Digital Library. This took 17 years and was published as the 17 volume Life and Labour of the People in London. We hold the archive of this mammoth undertaking including the notebooks, questionnaires and original survey data.īooth was most interested in surveying London's poverty, work and industries as well as entertainment and the influence of religion in people's lives. The archive of Charles Booth's late nineteenth century inquiry holds a staggering amount of original primary source information about London at that time.
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