Historians and social-science research data: The Peter Townsend collection

History Workshop Journal

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 206-219

  Charlesworth, Julie ^a   Fink, Janet ^a  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 27544496838     PISSN: 13633554     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/hwj/2001.51.206     Document Type: Article

References (53)

1. The ESRC Qualitative Data Archival Resource Centre (Qualidata) at the University of Essex acts as an intermediary between researchers and repositories in order to facilitate the archiving of data from individual projects or whole collections.
2. The National Social Policy and Social Change Archive, Albert Sloman Library, University of Essex. Details of the collections can be consulted on the Library's web pages (http://libwww.essex.ac.uk/guide/speccol/htm) or Qualidata's on-line catalogue (http://www. essex.ac.uk/qualidata).
3. See, for example, The Family Life of Old People, Routledge and Kegan Paul, London, 1957;
4. The Last Refuge, Routledge and Kegan Paul, London, 1962;
5. with Brian Abel-Smith, The Poor and the Poorest, Bell, London, 1965;
6. Old People in Three Industrial Societies, Routledge and Kegan Paul, London, 1968;
7. Poverty in the United Kingdom, Penguin, Harmondsworth, 1979;
8. with N. Davidson (eds), Inequalities in Health, Penguin, Harmondsworth, 1982.
9. G. Marshall, In Praise of Sociology, Unwin Hyman, London, 1990.
10. For details of Peter Townsend's current research see: http://www.bris.ac.uk/Depts/SPS/ people/townse.htm.
11. R. A. Kent, A History of British Empirical Sociology, Gower, London, 1981;
12. Martin Bulmer (ed.), Essays on the History of British Sociological Research, Cambridge University Press, 1985.
13. Peter Townsend Collection (hereafter cited as PTC), Interview: 30 June 1997.
14. As note 7.
15. As note 7.
16. Townsend, 'Poverty: Ten Years After Beveridge', Planning 344, 1952;
17. Townsend, 'Social Security and Unemployment in Lancashire', Planning 349, 1952.
18. B. S. Rowntree and G. R. Lavers, Poverty and the Welfare State: a Third Social Survey of York Dealing Only with Economic Questions, Longman, London, 1951.
19. Peter Townsend, 'Measuring Poverty', British Journal of Sociology 5, 1954, p. 131.
20. Peter Marris, Widows and their Families, Routledge and Kegan Paul, London, 1958;
21. Townsend, Family Life of Old People;
22. Peter Willmott and Michael Young, Family and Class in a London Suburb, London, Routledge and Kegan Paul, London, 1960;
23. Michael Young and Peter Willmott, Family and Kinship in East London, Routledge and Kegan Paul, London, 1957.
24. J. Finch and Penny Summerfield, 'Social Reconstruction and the Emergence of Companionate Marriage, 1945-59', in D. Clarke (ed.), Marriage, Domestic Life and Social Change: Writings for Jacqueline Burgoyne (1944-88), Routledge, London, 1991;
25. S. Laing, Representations of Working-Class Life 1957-1964, Macmillan, London, 1986;
26. C. Harris, 'The Family in Post-War Britain' and Penny Summerfield, 'Women in Britain Since 1945: Companionate Marriage and the Double Burden', in James Olbelkevich and P. Catterall (eds), Understanding Post-War British Society, Routledge, London, 1994.
27. Jennifer Platt, Social Research in Bethnal Green, Macmillan, London, 1971.
28. Bulmer (ed.), British Sociological Research, p. 138.
29. As note 16.
30. PTC, Townsend, 'The Anthropological Approach', unpublished paper, c. 1954.
31. PTC, Box 35: File 5/5.
32. As note 19.
33. PTC, Box 35: File 5/H.
34. The Passfield Collection, Archives, British Library of Political and Economic Science, LSE.
35. PTC, Box 33, File 4.
36. PTC, Box 33, File 2.
37. PTC, Box 33.
38. PTC, Box 33.
39. PTC, Box 34.
40. See, for example, David Englander and Rosemary O'Day (eds), Retrieved Riches: Social Investigation in Britain 1840-1914, Scolar Press, London, 1995;
41. C. Seymour-Jones, Beatrice Webb: Woman of Conflict, Pandora, London, 1993.
42. Rosemary O'Day, 'How Families Lived Then: Katharine Buildings, East Smithfield, 1885-90', in Ruth Finnegan and Michael Drake (eds), From Family Tree to Family History, Cambridge University Press, 1994.
43. PTC, Box 33, File 4.
44. PTC, Box 34, Files 14 - 21.
45. PTC, Interview: 30/6/97.
46. As note 32.
47. As note 32.
48. PTC, Box 33, File 13.
49. K. Jones and A. J. Fowles, Ideas on Institutions: Analysing the Literature on Long-Term Care and Custody, Routledge and Kegan Paul, London, 1984.
50. PTC, Interview: 24/1/98.
51. As note 37.
52. PTC, Box 36, Files 2-6; Box 37, File 9.
53. PTC, Box 37, File 10.