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Copyright, Citation and Terms of Use

The textural content on this website is the intellectual property of the of the author acknowledged by name or other identifier noted in the text. This includes the biographies, articles or other texts.

All images used in The Poor Law: Small Bills and Petty Finance are reproduced under license from the archives and libraries which hold the originals. These institution are identified in the caption. Images should not be reproduced without permission from the appropriate institution.

Textual content on this website is available for re-use under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial 4.0 International License (CC-BY-NC 4.0). You may use the material on this website for your own private study, non-commercial research and activities, and for instructional or educational purposes. You may share, copy, and redistribute the material in any medium or format with appropriate attribution.

  • Attribution: If you decide to use text from this website, you must give appropriate credit by attributing the author’s name or other identifier as the copyright holder and by linking to this website. Please refer to the Citation Guide below for our recommended practice.
  • Non-Commercial: You may not use the material for commercial purposes.  In this context, the project uses Creative Commons’ definition of non-commercial, as not primarily intended for or directed toward commercial advantage or monetary compensation.

Examples of use that the project would consider to be commercial include:

  • use in film, television or radio programmes
  • use by for-profit educational companies in school teaching resources or examination papers
  • use by organisations which publish online resources requiring subscriptions for access
  • print reproduction of transcribed text with minimal analysis (beyond that which is permitted by “fair use”).

Examples of use that the project would consider to be non-commercial include:

  • reviews, criticism or educational uses that would be covered by ‘fair use’
  • use of extracts or aggregated statistical data based on the site content in scholarly papers, articles, chapters and books, as long as the source of the data is acknowledged (see citation guide below)
  • use of extracts in family histories, as long as the source of the data is acknowledged (see citation guide below).

These examples are not intended to be comprehensive. For further context, please consult Creative Commons’ guidance on Non-Commercial interpretation, and contact the project for advice if in doubt. We aim to be as open to re-use as possible, while retaining the ability to generate income that will help to sustain the website in the future.

Derivatives: You are free to remix, transform, or build upon this material, with appropriate attribution.

Citation Guide:

Users who wish to cite material from the website in publications should, as with all internet publications, cite the URL (www.thepoorlaw.org) and the date on which the website was consulted.

The Project

To cite the project and web site as a whole please use the following format:

  • Alannah Tompkins, Tim Hitchcock, Louise Falcini and Peter Collinge, et al., The Poor Law: Small Bills and Petty Finance 1700-1834 (www.thepoorlaw.org, [date viewed]).
  • Subsequent citations might be shortened to: The Old Poor Law[or OPL].

The project staff are listed on the ‘Team’ pages in each of the county sections.

Lives, Places and Things

To cite individual blog posts please use the following format:

  •  Author (name or other identifier), ‘Title of blog post’, The Poor Law: Small Bills and Petty Finance (www.thepoorlaw.org, date you viewed the item). For example:

Louise Falcini, ‘The Parish of East Hoathly’, The Poor Law: Small Bills and Petty Finance (www.thepoorlaw.org, 20 February 2019).

  • Subsequent citations to the same article could use a shortened form, such as: Falcini ‘ East Hoathly’, OPL.

Acceptable use policy

The Poor Law: Small Bills and Petty Finance website, www.thepoorlaw.org, represents a project output funded by the AHRC. It is hosted on behalf of Keele University and showcases work by historians from the Universities of Keele and Sussex together with archival research volunteers based at partner institutions. This includes: Cumbria Record Office, East Sussex Record Office and Staffordshire Record Office. As such this website adheres to the Acceptable Use Policies for these institutions including comments on articles.[1]

Users of this website, including blog post authors or those writing comments on blog posts may not:

  • Post any offensive, obscene or indecent images, data or other material, or any data capable of being resolved into obscene or indecent images or material
  • Post material with the intent to cause annoyance, inconvenience or needless anxiety; this includes threatening or discriminatory content
  • Post material with the intent to defraud
  • Post defamatory material
  • Post material such that this infringes the copyright of another person or organisation.[2]

The academic research staff on The Poor Law: Small Bills and Petty Finance project reserve the right to refuse, remove or edit blog posts and comments.

Privacy

 We process personal data in line with the University of Sussex Privacy Notice. See https://www.sussex.ac.uk/about/website/privacy-and-cookies/privacy. And research data in line with Sussex Research Online Policy http://www.sussex.ac.uk/library/research/sro/policies 25 Jan 2018.

Project data and blog posts

The intellectual property rights of the data created during this project belongs to the archival research volunteer or member of project staff that created it. The material is made available to The Poor Law: Small Bills and Petty Finance project to distribute under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC 4.0). This means that the data and other material may be used for private study, non-commercial research and activities, and for instructional or educational purposes. Material may be shared, copied, and redistributed in any medium of format or remixed, transformed or built upon with appropriate attribution.

Blog posts are the intellectual property of the author. However, by posting it on the project website (www.thepoorlaw.org) the author agrees to make it available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC 4.0) as above or see https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ .

[1] University of Sussex ‘Acceptable use policy for comments’ http://www.sussex.ac.uk/broadcast/comments-acceptable-use.html 25 Jan 2019.

[2] For details of related statutes and regulations see: ISG01, University of Sussex, Guidance Notes for Regulations for the use of Information Technology, June 2017. https://www.sussex.ac.uk/infosec/documents/isg01-use-of-information-technology-guidance.pdf 25 January 2019.

 

Louise Falcini