The Workhouse Encyclopedia

Author : Peter Higginbotham
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 517 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2012-03-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780752477190

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The Workhouse Encyclopedia by Peter Higginbotham Pdf

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 : Peter Higginbotham
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2012-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780752477176

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Voices from the Workhouse by Peter Higginbotham Pdf

Voices from the Workhouse tells the real inside story of the workhouse - in the words of those who experienced the institution at first hand, either as inmates or through some other connection with the institution. Using a wide variety of sources — letters, poems, graffiti, autobiography, official reports, testimony at official inquiries, and oral history, Peter Higginbotham creates a vivid portrait of what really went on behind the doors of the workhouse — all the sights, sounds and smells of the place, and the effect it had on those whose lives it touched. Was the workhouse the cruel and inhospitable place as which it's often presented, or was there more to it than that? This book lets those who knew the place provide the answer.

Author : Peter Higginbotham
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2013-02-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780752492308

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A Grim Almanac of the Workhouse by Peter Higginbotham Pdf

For two centuries, the shadow of the workhouse hung over Britain. The recourse of only the most desperate, dark and terrible tales of malnutrition, misery, mistreatment and murder ran like wildfire through the poorer classes, who lived in terror of being forced inside the institution's towering walls. This book contains 365 incredible tales of fires, drownings, explosions and disasters, infamous scandals such as the Andover affair – where inmates were forced to eat the bones they were supposed to be crushing to ward off starvation – and sickening tales of abuse, assault, bodysnatching, poisonings, post mortems and murder. Accompanied by 70 rare and wonderful illustrations, this book will thrill, fascinate, sadden and unnerve in equal measure. DID YOU KNOW? In the early hours of 31 August 1888, the mutilated body of Mary Ann Nichols – the first generally accepted victim of Jack the Ripper – was discovered in Buck's Row, Whitechapel, just a little way from the Whitechapel workhouse infirmary. Nichols, aged forty-two at her death, had been a regular habituée of London's workhouses. On 30 May 1896, at the age of seven, future Hollywood star Charlie Chaplin entered the Newington workhouse in south London, together with his mother, Hannah, and his older half-brother Sydney. On 19 March 1834 a revolt took place amongst the juvenile female paupers of St Margaret's workhouse, Westminster. A young man named Speed, appointed as their superintendent, provoked their wrath by his alleged tyrannical behaviour. He was unmercifully thrashed by the girls who tore his clothes nearly off his back and beat him until his cries raised the alarm and the police were sent for to quell the disturbance.

Author : Peter Higginbotham
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2017-09-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1976231744

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On the Road by Peter Higginbotham Pdf

'On the Road' makes available in a single volume three major first-hand accounts of visits to the casual wards (overnight accommodation for tramps, vagrants and other wayfarers) at dozens of English workhouses between 1928 and 1935. Its shocking revelations about the treatment of the inmates of these institutions led to material improvements in conditions. The book includes an introduction to the casual ward by Peter Higginbotham, a well-known author and researcher on the the workhouse system.

Author : Alan Gallop
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2012-05-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780752486970

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Life in a Victorian Workhouse by Alan Gallop Pdf

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 : One of Them,Peter Higginbotham
Publisher : Createspace Independent Pub
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2013-01-28
Category : History
ISBN : 1482083981

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Indoor Paupers by 'One of Them' by One of Them,Peter Higginbotham Pdf

Now available for the first time in more than a century, this unique book provides an insider's view of life inside a London workhouse in the 1880s. Originally published anonymously, a new preface by Peter Higginbotham uncovers the identity of the author and that of the workhouse he describes. The book, the only full-length account of workhouse life through an inmate's eyes, includes fascinating details of the characters who inhabited the institution and the sometimes nefarious practices engaged in by its staff.

Author : Norman Longmate
Publisher : Random House
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Almshouses
ISBN : 9780712606370

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The Workhouse by Norman Longmate Pdf

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 : Peter Higginbotham
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2013-02-01
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9780752492308

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A Grim Almanac of the Workhouse by Peter Higginbotham Pdf

For two centuries, the shadow of the workhouse hung over Britain. The recourse of only the most desperate, dark, and terrible tales of malnutrition, misery, mistreatment, and murder ran like wildfire through the poorer classes, who lived in terror of being forced inside the institution's towering walls—and, as this collection proves, all of them were true! This book contains 365 incredible tales of fires, drownings, explosions, and disasters, infamous scandals such as the Andover affair—where inmates were forced to eat the bones they were supposed to be crushing to ward off starvation—and sickening tales of abuse, assault, bodysnatching, poisonings, post mortems, and murder. Accompanied by 70 rare and wonderful illustrations, this book will thrill, fascinate, sadden, and unnerve in equal measure.

Author : Peter Jones,Steven King
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2020-08-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9783030478391

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Pauper Voices, Public Opinion and Workhouse Reform in Mid-Victorian England by Peter Jones,Steven King Pdf

This book represents the first attempt to identify and describe a workhouse reform ‘movement’ in mid- to late-nineteenth-century England, beyond the obvious candidates of the Workhouse Visiting Society and the voices of popular critics such as Charles Dickens and Florence Nightingale. It is a subject on which the existing workhouse literature is largely silent, and this book therefore fills a considerable gap in our understanding of contemporary attitudes towards institutional welfare. Although many scholars have touched on the more obvious strands of workhouse criticism noted above, few have gone beyond these to explore the possibility that a concerted ‘movement’ existed that sought to place pressure on those with responsibility for workhouse administration, and to influence the trajectory of workhouse policy.

Author : Peter Higginbotham
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2022-02-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780750999786

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Workhouses of Wales and the Welsh Borders by Peter Higginbotham Pdf

A survey in 1776 recorded almost 2,000 parish workhouses operating in England, while the number in Wales was just nineteen. The New Poor Law of 1834 proved equally unattractive in much of Wales – some parts of the country resisted providing a workhouse until the 1870s, with Rhayader in Radnorshire being the last area in the whole of England and Wales to do so. Our image of these institutions has often been coloured by the work of authors such as Charles Dickens, but what was the reality? Where exactly were these workhouses located – and what happened to them? People are often surprised to discover that a familiar building was once a workhouse. Revealing locations steeped in social history, Workhouses of Wales and the Welsh Borders is a comprehensive and copiously illustrated guide to the workhouses that were set up across Wales and the border counties of Cheshire, Shropshire, Herefordshire and Gloucestershire. It provides an insight into the contemporary attitudes towards such institutions as well as their construction and administration, what life was like for the inmates, and where to find their records today.

Author : Simon R. Frost
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 445 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2021-05-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781438483535

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Reading, Wanting, and Broken Economics by Simon R. Frost Pdf

Combining historical study, theorization, and experimental fiction, this book takes commodity culture and book retail around 1900 as the prime example of a market of symbolic goods. With the port of Southampton, England, as his case study, Simon R. Frost reveals how the city's bookshops, with their combinations of libraries, haberdashery, stationery, and books, sustained and were sustained by the dreams of ordinary readers, and how together they created the values powering this market. The goods in this market were symbolic and were not "consumed" but read. Their readings were created between other readers and texts, in happy disobedience to the neoliberal laws of the free market. Today such reader-created social markets comprise much of the world's branded economies, which is why Frost calls for a new understanding of both literary and market values.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 784 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1907
Category : Local government
ISBN : NYPL:33433081999165

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Encyclopedia of Local Government Law by Anonim Pdf

Author : Kirsty Gray
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2013-04-19
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781783376612

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Tracing Your West Country Ancestors by Kirsty Gray Pdf

This book is an essential handbook for those researching their ancestry in the counties of Cornwall, Devon and Somerset and the city of Bristol. It begins with an introduction to the identity of The West Country, its geography and history over the centuries. It then guides family historians through the wealth of historical records available both online and in archives and libraries in order to add the flesh to the bones of the names of ancestors on their family trees.West Country expert Kirsty Gray highlights fascinating details that can be uncovered about the places where our ancestors lived, their occupations and the distinctive features, identity and character of the West Country itself. She provides case studies of some notable individuals from the counties as well as records of those individuals who never hit the headlines.This practical and informative guide is a must have for readers wishing to find out more about all aspects of life in this area of England.

Author : Sue Wilkes
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2013-09-19
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781473829626

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Tracing Your Ancestors' Childhood by Sue Wilkes Pdf

Every family historian has child ancestors, and childhood experiences and records are an essential aspect of research into a past life. That is why Sue Wilkes's detailed and accessible handbook is such a useful guide for anyone who is trying to find out about the early years of their forbears. In Tracing Your Ancestors' Childhood she explores the history of childhood and education and brings together information about relevant records and archives into one handy reference guide. She outlines ancestors' childhood experiences at home, school, work and in institutions, especially during Victorian times. In the opening chapter she reviews basic family history sources, then she discusses records of childhood in detail. Specialist archives, published sources, recommended reading and other resources and documents are covered. She focuses primarily on England and Wales and covers the years 1750–1950. The second part of her book is a directory of archives and specialist repositories. Databases of children's societies, useful genealogy websites, and places to visit which bring the social history of childhood to life are all included.

Author : David Levinson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Homeless persons
ISBN : UOM:39015059301310

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Encyclopedia of Homelessness by David Levinson Pdf

A readerʼs guide is provided to assist readers in locating entries on related topics. It classifies entries into 14 general categories: Causes, Cities, Demography and Characteristics, Health issues, History, Housing, Legal issues, Advocacy and policy, Lifestyle issues, Organizations, Perceptions of homelessness, Populations, Research, Service systems and settings, World perspectives and issues.