Workhouse Encyclopedia

Author : Peter Higginbotham
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 517 pages
File Size : 42,6 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 : 663 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2012-03-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780752477190

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Workhouse Encyclopedia by Peter Higginbotham Pdf

This fascinating, fully illustrated volume is the definitive guide to every aspect of workhouse life. Compiled by Peter Higginbotham, one of Britain's foremost experts on the subject, it covers everything from the 1725 publication An Account of Several Workhouses to the South African Zulu admitted to Fulham Road Workhouse in 1880. With hundreds of fascinating anecdotes, plus priceless information for researchers including workhouse addresses, useful websites and archive repository details, maps, plans, original workhouse publications and an extensive bibliography, it will delight family historians and general readers alike.

Author : Peter Higginbotham
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 45,9 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 : 271 pages
File Size : 47,6 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 : 54,8 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 : 52,9 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 : 55,7 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 : Sue Wilkes
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 52,7 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 : Kirsty Gray
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 51,9 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 : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 934 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1916
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
ISBN : PRNC:32101064517269

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New International Encyclopedia by Anonim Pdf

Author : Tamara S. Wagner
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2020-05-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780198858010

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The Victorian Baby in Print by Tamara S. Wagner Pdf

The first study to focus exclusively on the baby in nineteenth-century literature and culture. Drawing on novels by writers such as Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, as well as parenting magazines and manuals, it analyses how representations of infancy shaped an iconography that has defined the Victorian age.

Author : Barbara J. Starmans
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2017-04-30
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781473879737

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Tracing Your Ancestors' Lives by Barbara J. Starmans Pdf

Tracing Your Ancestors Lives is not a comprehensive study of social history but instead an exploration of the various aspects of social history of particular interest to the family historian. It has been written to help researchers to go beyond the names, dates and places in their pedigree back to the time when their ancestors lived. Through the research advice, resources and case studies in the book, researchers can learn about their ancestors, their families and the society they lived in and record their stories for generations to come. Each chapter highlights an important general area of study. Topics covered include the family and society; domestic life; birth life and death; work, wages and economy; community, religion and government. Barbara J. Starmanss handbook encourages family historians to immerse themselves more deeply in their ancestors time and place. Her work will give researchers a fascinating insight into what their ancestors lives were like.

Author : Stuart A Raymond
Publisher : Pen and Sword Family History
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2020-05-30
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781526742964

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Tracing Your Poor Ancestors by Stuart A Raymond Pdf

Many people in the past – perhaps a majority – were poor. Tracing our ancestors amongst them involves consulting a wide range of sources. Stuart Raymond’s handbook is the ideal guide to them. He examines the history of the poor and how they survived. Some were supported by charity. A few were lucky enough to live in an almshouse. Many had to depend on whatever the poor law overseers gave them. Others were forced into the Union workhouse. Some turned to a life of crime. Vagrants were whipped and poor children were apprenticed by the overseers or by a charity. Paupers living in the wrong place were forcibly ‘removed’ to their parish of settlement. Many parishes and charities offered them the chance to emigrate to North America or Australia. As a result there are many places where information can be found about the poor. Stuart Raymond describes them all: the records of charities, of the poor law overseers, of poor law unions, of Quarter Sessions, of bankruptcy, and of friendly societies. He suggests many other potential sources of information in record offices, libraries, and on the internet.

Author : Hallie Rubenhold
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Murder victims
ISBN : 9781328663818

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The Five by Hallie Rubenhold Pdf

Miscast in the media for nearly 130 years, the victims of Jack the Ripper finally get their full stories told in this eye-opening and chilling reminder that life for middle-class women in Victorian London could be full of social pitfalls and peril.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 784 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1907
Category : Local government
ISBN : NYPL:33433081999165

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Encyclopedia of Local Government Law by Anonim Pdf