Name, Residence, Vote and Occupation for the 1852 and 1857 Sheffield General Elections

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The research project set out in 1985 to investigate the claim made by Martin J. Wiener in <i>English culture and the decline of the industrial spirit: 1850-1980</i> (Cambridge University Press, 1982) that Tory political support was inimical to the growth of industrial capitalism. An ancillary aim of the project was to explore the political allegiance of the membership of the Sheffield Club. In order to achieve both of these aims information from the poll books for the 1852 and 1857 Sheffield elections were entered into a database and then linked to occupational data from local commercial directories.

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The material consists of a transcription of the contents of the parliamentary poll books for Sheffield for the general elections of 1852 and 1857. Each record consists of: the voter's name; the ward containing the qualifying property; the address of the qualifying property; the voter's vote; an occupational description of the voter; and an occupational coding.

No sampling (total universe)

Transcription of existing materials

The voting data is a complete transcription of the poll books except that where an individual had multiple voting rig hts only the instance where the franchise was exercised (or where no franchise was exercised, a random choice of loca tion) is recorded.

Identifier
DOI https://doi.org/10.5255/UKDA-SN-4241-1
Metadata Access https://datacatalogue.cessda.eu/oai-pmh/v0/oai?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_ddi25&identifier=1769dd20ae4ec06ec7e5b6c413c5b79041a91865a9ed8c819b0a7e75613950ed
Provenance
Creator Arthur, C., University of East London; White, A., University of East London, Department of Sociology and Anthropology
Publisher UK Data Service
Publication Year 2001
Funding Reference University of East London, Department of Sociology and Anthropology
Rights Copyright A. White; <p>The Data Collection is available to UK Data Service registered users subject to the <a href="https://ukdataservice.ac.uk/app/uploads/cd137-enduserlicence.pdf" target="_blank">End User Licence Agreement</a>.</p><p>Commercial use of the data requires approval from the data owner or their nominee. The UK Data Service will contact you.</p>
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Representation
Resource Type Text; Numeric
Discipline History; Humanities
Spatial Coverage Yorkshire West Riding; England