Bedfordshire Farm Worker in the Nineteenth Century

The Bedfordshire Farm Worker in the Nineteenth CenturyThis is a collection of extracts from Parliamentary Papers and documentary material in Bedfordshire County Record Office to describe the life of the farm worker in nineteenth-century Bedfordshire. A general overview is followed by sections concerned with the poor law, the life of the labourer, migration and emigration, housing, access to land and education, and the Agricultural Labourers' Union.The volume begins with a tribute In Memoriam to Harold Owen White, secretary of BHRS 1965-1980.