Vagrant Lives: 14,789 Vagrants Processed by the County of Middlesex, 1777–1786

Crymble, Adam; Falcini, Louise; Hitchcock, Tim

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“…Clark, by virtue of the circumstances when he took office, may have signed more vagrant passes during his one-year tenure than anyone else ever had, clocking up at least 1,285 in the surviving records. 36 Less than a week after Robert's medical examination, on 4 February, and with their pass in hand, the Lawson family boarded the covered cart of Middlesex's vagrancy removal contractor, Henry Adams, who took them north on the first leg of their journey back to Ireland. 37 At each county border they would be passed to a new local vagrant contractor who would help them with the next leg of the journey, following the routes of the established stagecoaches towards the northwest and the Irish Sea, typically departing from either Milford Haven, Holyhead or Liverpool, depending on the destination.…”

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The impact of military demobilisation on rising Irish migration to London, c.1750–1850

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2023

Ir. Hist. Stud.

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Irish soldiers demobilised in London after major eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century wars were an important but overlooked source of unintentional Irish migrants to the capital. Their migration was linked to the centralised military pension system, which meant that servicemen in English regiments had to present themselves for a medical examination at Chelsea or Greenwich hospitals — both in the London area. A lack of provision available to then get these often very disabled and wounded men back home to Ireland meant that many stayed semi-permanently or permanently in London, and their presence can be measured decades later in the 1841 census. This challenges current understandings about the Irish diaspora in Britain by highlighting the role of the government in shepherding Irish men across the Irish Sea.

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The impact of military demobilisation on rising Irish migration to London, c.1750–1850

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2023

Ir. Hist. Stud.

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The decline and fall of an early modern slum: London's St Giles ‘Rookery’, c. 1550–1850

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2021

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The Rookery of London's St Giles-in-the-Fields became the city's most notorious slum by the eighteenth century. This article asks why? Why there, why then and why for so long? Building on existing research about urban development and the failure of local government, by considering the geography, economics and legal influences acting upon the space and the people who interacted with it over the long durée, it becomes clear that the Rookery of St Giles-in-the-Fields was always high risk because of happenstance of geography, but that a lack of leadership from its owners and a system of urban upkeep that distributed responsibility too widely led to its longevity and the depth of its misfortune.

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Introduction: Being Progressive

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The Language of Progressive Politics in Modern Britain

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Vagrant Lives: 14,789 Vagrants Processed by the County of Middlesex, 1777–1786

Cited by 4 publications

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The impact of military demobilisation on rising Irish migration to London, c.1750–1850

The impact of military demobilisation on rising Irish migration to London, c.1750–1850

The decline and fall of an early modern slum: London's St Giles ‘Rookery’, c. 1550–1850

Introduction: Being Progressive

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