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    Poverty Line 1839 to 1900

    Hi, yes I have him on my list ( although error my side I thought I put Great King Street with Little King Street but I didn't) I will complete Great King Street this week but I have completed a quick calculation for you and have attached a pdf showing the income and expenditure. I have them as a...
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    Poverty Line 1839 to 1900

    Hello Mortum. Having now completed the data, I am going to start delving into the causes and I agree, almost certainly it is not really to do with the character of individuals but the situation that they find themselves in. The rapid rise of Industrial Birmingham and population growth giving...
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    Poverty Line 1839 to 1900

    Hello to all, having worked on my project of 10 years (actually 15) for finding out the poverty line and standard of living for families. I am now coming to the end of my research for 12038 households and over 100 streets. Detailed information of each households is available on my website...
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    Poverty Line 1839 to 1900

    Thank you for your reply, I will update on progress. My goal is to complete 140 Streets with around 42000 households, this will highlight the way of life was for many families, which was I believe below the poverty line.
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    Poverty Line 1839 to 1900

    Hello, For the last 10 plus years, I have been working on an on-going project to create a coloured poverty line map for Birmingham. Over the years I have dropped in and out with my research and studies. Similar to Charles Booth 'Life and Labour of the people in London' and his coloured maps, as...
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