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Author | : Norman Longmate |
Publisher | : Random House |
Total Pages | : 338 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Almshouses |
ISBN | : 0712606378 |
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The British workhouse is the stuff of literature and legend. But what exactly was it? Surprisingly, no full-scale history of the workhouse has ever been written. Here, historian Norman Longmate tells the full story, from its beginnings in Elizabethan times until its demise in the 1940s, though mainly concentrating on the Victorian workhouse in the years of its tarnished glory. He describes the circumstances in the 1830s that led to the opening of 600 new workhouses--an event that met with astonishingly little opposition among reformers. He also records the riots, the protests, and the pleadings with which the poor challenged their virtual enslavement, and the misery of their daily lives when they were finally incarcerated within the workhouse walls.
Author | : Simon Fowler |
Publisher | : Pen and Sword |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 2014-09-11 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1783831510 |
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The stories of those who lived in the shadow of the workhouse'??During the nineteenth century the workhouse cast a shadow over the lives of the poor. The destitute and the desperate sought refuge within its forbidding walls. And it was an ever-present threat if poor families failed to look after themselves properly. As a result a grim mythology has grown up about the horrors of the 'house' and the mistreatment meted out to the innocent pauper. ??In this fully-updated and revised edition of his bestselling book, Simon Fowler takes a fresh look at the workhouse and the people who sought help from it. He looks at how the system of the Poor Law _ of which the workhouse was a key part _ was organised and the men and women who ran the workhouses or were employed to care for the inmates.??But above all this is the moving story of the tens of thousands of children, men, women and the elderly who were forced to endure grim conditions to survive in an unfeeling world.??'A poignant account ... draws powerfully on letters from The National Archives ... [Simon Fowler] brings out the horror, but it is fair-minded to those struggling to be humane within an inhumane system,' The Independent??'A good introduction,' The Guardian.??The history of workhouses and poverty ('misery history') has recently been prominently covered on TV shows like WDYTYA? and ITV's Secrets from the Workhouse, and referenced in historical dramas like The Village and Ripper Street.
Author | : Alan Gallop |
Publisher | : The History Press |
Total Pages | : 58 |
Release | : 2012-05-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0752486977 |
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What was it like in a Victorian Workhouse? Was the food really as bad as we imagine? Take a step back in time with Alan Gallop and ask yourself if you could have survived in such harsh conditions.
Author | : Diana Athill |
Publisher | : House of Anansi |
Total Pages | : 210 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1770890610 |
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A collection of stories originally published in the 1950s through the 1970s focuses on the sexual experiences of women.
Author | : Ruth Richardson |
Publisher | : OUP Oxford |
Total Pages | : 391 |
Release | : 2012-02-02 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0191624136 |
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The recent discovery that as a young man Charles Dickens lived only a few doors from a major London workhouse made headlines worldwide, and the campaign to save the workhouse from demolition caught the public imagination. Internationally, the media immediately grasped the idea that Oliver Twist's workhouse had been found, and made public the news that both the workhouse and Dickens's old home were still standing, near London's Telecom Tower. This book, by the historian who did the sleuthing behind these exciting new findings, presents the story for the first time, and shows that the two periods Dickens lived in that part of London - before and after his father's imprisonment in a debtors' prison - were profoundly important to his subsequent writing career.
Author | : Lindsey Hutchinson |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 380 |
Release | : 2016-12-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1786692511 |
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Tears and tribulations, laughs and heartbreak, from an exciting new talent. Perfect for the fans of Jo Cox and Lyn Andrews. Cara Flowers' mother disappeared when she was too young to realise, and when her grandmother dies she leaves not only an enormous fortune, but also a huge responsibility – she wants Cara to find their estranged family. Her quest leads her to the doors of the looming Bilston workhouse where children are torn away from their families to toil for others. Shocked by the appalling conditions, Cara vows to find a way to shut down the building and rescue its residents. And then she discovers a link between the workhouse and her missing mother... Can Cara overcome her past and save these children from their fate? What people are saying about THE WORKHOUSE CHILDREN: 'A truly beautiful read, well done to the author for giving me such enjoyment' 'A very poignant, feel good novel' 'I laughed, cried and gasped, such a gripping story line' 'What an amazing story start to finish'
Author | : Cathy Sharp |
Publisher | : HarperCollins |
Total Pages | : 400 |
Release | : 2019-05-16 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0008286698 |
Download The Barefoot Child (The Children of the Workhouse, Book 2) Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The heart-breaking and compelling new book set in a Victorian workhouse from the author of the The Orphans of Halfpenny Street
Author | : M. A. Crowther |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 318 |
Release | : 2016-06-17 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1317236823 |
Download The Workhouse System 1834-1929 Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
First published in 1981. Professor Crowther traces the history of the workhouse system from the Poor Law Amendment Act of 1834 to the Local Government Act of 1929. At their outset the large residential institutions were seen by the Poor Law Commissioners as a cure for nearly all social ills. In fact these formidable, impersonal, prison-like buildings – housing all paupers under one roof – became institutionalised: places where routine came to be an end in itself. In the early twentieth century some of the workhouses became hospitals or homes for the old or handicapped but many continued to form a residual service for those who needed long-term care. Crowther pays attention not only to the administrators but also to the inmates and their daily life. She illustrates that the workhouse system was not simply a nineteenth-century phenomenon but a forerunner of many of today’s social institutions.
Author | : Peter Higginbotham |
Publisher | : The History Press |
Total Pages | : 517 |
Release | : 2012-03-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0752477196 |
Download The Workhouse Encyclopedia Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This fascinating, fully illustrated volume is the definitive guide to every aspect of the workhouse and of the poor relief system in which it played a pivotal part. Compiled by Peter Higginbotham, one of Britain's best-known experts on the subject, this A-Z cornucopia covers everything from the 1725 publication An Account of Several Work-houses to the South African Zulu admitted to Fulham Road Workhouse in 1880. With hundreds of fascinating anecdotes, plus priceless information for researchers including workhouse locations throughout the British Isles, useful websites and archive repository details, maps, plans, original workhouse publications and an extensive bibliography, it will delight family historians and general readers alike. Where was my local workhouse? What records did they keep? What is gruel and is it really what inmates lived on? How did you get out of a workhouse? What famous people were once workhouse inmates? Are there any workhouse buildings I can visit? If these are the kinds of questions you've ever wanted to know the answer to, then this is the book for you.
Author | : Jonathan Reinarz |
Publisher | : Boydell & Brewer |
Total Pages | : 290 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1580464483 |
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This text examines the history of the medical services provided by workhouses, both in Britain and its former colonies, during the 18th and 19th centuries.