Description
The 2011 Business Archives Council Business History Bursary was awarded to Linda Perriton and Josephine Maltby to help support their research into the history of working class women's interaction with financial institutions. Their research to date has indicated that women represented a much higher proportion of account holders in savings banks than previously assumed. Data from a pilot project suggests that that married women's ability to make and control savings in institutions, has been less affected than previously believed prior to the Married Women's Property Act 1870 and 1882. Maltby and Perriton's research holds out the hope that it is possible to build a database of working class women's savings in the nineteenth century| Period | 1 Jul 2011 → 30 Jun 2012 |
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| Held at | British Archives Council |
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Projects
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Working class savings 1830-1900
Project: Other project › Research collaboration
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Publications
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Savings banks in England and Wales in the nineteenth century: a new insight into saving and spending
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
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Working-Class Households and Savings in England, 1850–1880
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Depositor trends in the Limehouse Savings Bank, London between 1830 and 1876.
Research output: Working paper