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Name: |
Christine Seal
MPhil, BA(Hons) |
E-Mail: |
Christine.seal@virgin.net |
"From a loathing of history at school, I now find myself
as a very mature part-time student in history and holding down a full time
administrative job to finance my historical research. I am a graduate of the
Open University, with social and economic history of the 19th century as my
main subject. I have a BA (Hons) from the OU and a
Master of Philosophy from the University of Birmingham in modern history,
investigating domestic servants in the 19th century."
Works-in-progress
I have [one] project that can currently be classed as 'works-in-progress'.
 | "Poor relief and welfare in Cheltenham and Belper Unions for the
period 1834 to 1914 will seek to answer a number of questions relating
to how the poor were managed in their communities, the workhouse,
effects of bad harvests, the number requiring assistance, pauper
apprentices, poor rates etc. This research is for a PhD thesis and I am
based at the University of Leicester, Centre for English Local History. |
Future
Projects
Past Projects
| Comparison of servant numbers 1881 and 1901 in
the major houses in England and Wales to ascertain whether there was any
evidence of declining numbers at the beginning of the 20th
century.","The occupations in the village communities around Bredon
Hill: 1851 and 1881 investigated the occupations within these villages
and whether the number employed in agriculture declined between the two
dates. It looked to establish whether new industries gave rise to new
employment opportunities and if this changed the population numbers
living in the villages. |
| MPhil thesis, University of Birmingham, ""Houses
of the Midland Counties and their servants living in 84 houses in the
Midland counties in Derbyshire, Staffordshire, Warwickshire and
Worcestershire. The houses analysed were owned by both the
industrialists/bankers/merchants and the aristocracy and looked at the
servant structure, migration patterns, age and servant hierarchy.
Publications
 | Masters and Servants of the National Trust Houses: the Severn Region,
1861-1891 published in project reports in Family &
Community History 5, Open University 2000, concentrated in the servants
living within nine houses currently owned by the National Trust. It
examined their migration patterns from place of work to employment, age
ranges and a comparison of upper and lower servant occupations. |
| Henry Seal and the Ellis Island Data,
Sept 2001, Derbyshire
Family History Society Journal |
| The Housekeeper in the Strutt Household, Belper,
March 2002, Derbyshire Family History Society Journal |
| Tracing the Geographical pattern of the surname Seal(e)
and its Derbyshire connections. June 2003, Derbyshire Family
History Society Journal |
| The Herefords: a tool/pattern making family from Derby,
March 2004, Derbyshire Family History Society Journal |
| The Killers of Wirksworth and Middleton June 2004,
Derbyshire Family History Society Journal |
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Last Updated
07 Aug 2007
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