If you're inspired to make your own refreshing gruel on this 32 degree day, here's a piece I wrote last year on Victorian workhouse diets.

#archives #VictorianHistory #workhouses
www.thelondonarchives.org/blog/exhibit...

An underrated collection!

It’s National Famine Commemoration in Ireland. Hannah Macknamara was sent back to Ireland from London in 1847, the peak of the Great Hunger. Hannah was one to flee Ireland but fell foul to British settlement laws. One million died during the Famine. #IrishHistory

Thanks for coming! The City of London Sessions records also contain Irish removal orders. @thelondonarchives.bsky.social also has Westminster Sessions but the collection is much smaller than the other two and some of it is uncatalogued so it's hard to say if there's anything relevant in them.

Hi Mike, most of the books I can think of focus on the post-war era but there's plenty of oral histories that may be of interest. @londonmetuni.bsky.social have fantastic Irish collections so I'd recommend checking them out, this is one of their films.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=M90r...

Thanks Breda. I was very sorry to miss your talk today, early St Patrick’s Day celebrations mean I’m not in London! There are some incredible (and horrific) documents relating to Irish removals in TLA’s collections, brilliant to hear they’re getting the attention they deserve with your research.

There's also an opportunity to come in and view original archival material related to the Irish Famine and pauper removals from London - www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/archives-i...