Social Issues

How people live and their welfare

A 'Staycation' in Hertford
If you are staying in Hertford why not visit the Hertford for some seaside vibes! Hertford Town Council has teamed up ...
A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE PROVISION AND EARLY YEARS OF HERTFORD'S UTLILITIES
It has to be said of Hertford Borough Corporation that it was quick to provide the town with amenities that ...
Christmas in the Workhouse
Christmas Day in the Workhouse is a very sad story. The poor, as recipients of charity, were dependent on the view ...
Clibbon's Post
During the late eighteenth century, local traders at Hertford’s markets,had more reason than usual to fear the footpads, who regularly ...
Daring escape from Hertford Gaol
This article appeared in ‘The Monthly Chronologer’ in July 1741 and describes in great detail, the last desperate actions of four condemned ...
Doctor Dunn and the Post WW1 Housing Crisis
Robert Ayton Dunn (26 March 1867 – 1941) Lic.R. Coll. Phys. Lond. 1890; Mem R Coll. Surg. Eng. 1890; MB ...
Hertford. Prince Albert Cottages
These are not almshouses but model designs for dwellings for working people. As at least three people had mentioned them ...
Hertford's Ever Changing Past
I recently got the chance to look at some old OS Maps while doing work experience with Hertfordshire Archives and ...
Hertford's Riverside Yards
Inland Revenue map, c. 1911, showing the yards in Maidenhead Street, Hertford (credit: Hertfordshire Archives & Local Studies) At the beginning ...
Petition from Hertford and North Herts re the abolition of slavery, 1830
Poor Relief in Stuart Hertford
(This article is an edited version of my talk to the Society in April 2002, omitting the discussion of the ...
Sale of a Slave in Hertford, 1768
A boy called Howard
Hertford County Hospital (26)