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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"Workhouse"”.
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Behind Workhouse Walls: The Public Regulation of Slavery in Charleston, 1730-1850
… of enslaved prisoners in local jails and workhouses of antebellum South Carolina from 1730-1850 with a particular focus on the 1790s as a transformative period. Those sites expose the close relationship between governmental authority and the discipline of black people, a relationship that …
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'Sick, aged and infirm': adults in the new Birmingham workhouse, 1852-1912
This study has explored the role of a large urban workhouse and its separate infirmary in Birmingham in the provision of indoor medical care for adult paupers between 1852 and 1912. Due to the difficulty in distinguishing between the medical and social care of older people, it has examined the …
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Religion, the SPCK and the Westminster workhouses : 're-enchanting' the eighteenth-century workhouse
… religion and religious reform in the Westminster workhouses and how it developed throughout the eighteenth century. Tim Hitchcock argued in 1992 that the SPCK, an Anglican reforming society, was largely responsible for the parochial workhouse movement in the early eighteenth century, viewing these …
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Children and childhood under the Irish Poor Law, c. 1850-1914
… welfare was provided for the children within the workhouse institutions. The Irish Poor Law, centred on the workhouse, was the first national system of statutory poor relief and it marked a significant change in how poor children and families were provided for in Ireland. Through a statistical …
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The Poor Law Union and the Famine in Carlow 1845-1847
… its Board of Guardians and the building of the Workhouse. The fourth chapter deals with the Workhouse and the Famine in Cariow up to December 1847. The fifth chapter deals with the number of paupers in the Workhouse between April 1845 and December 1847 and also studies the number of deaths there …
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The Introduction and Operation of the New Poor Law in Suffolk 1834-70
… Suffolk to achieving their conversion to Union workhouses. It examines the power structures surrounding the New Poor Law, particularly the relationship between the local Boards of Guardians and the central Poor Law Commission (and later Board.) It also looks at the power structures within the …
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A social history of illegitimacy in Ireland from the late eighteenth to the early twentieth century
… records, parish registers, official records and workhouse registers - are examined in turn and their strengths and limitations acknowledged.<br/><br/>Chapter 4 presents data obtained from Presbyterian church courts in the eighteenth century. The data relate to two levels of church courts, …
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The Poor Law in Bradford c. 1834-1871. A study of the relief of poverty in mid-nineteenth century Bradford.
… medical relief. Chapter 5(iii) examines the Workhouse regime and the treatment of particular groups of inmates, such as the mentally ill and vagrants. The education provided for Workhouse children is compared with that available to the independent poor. The Chapter concludes with a detailed …
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An isotopic and historical study of diet and migration during the great Irish Potato famine (1845-1852). High-resolution carbon and nitrogen isotope profiling of teeth to investigate migration and short-term dietary change at the Union workhouse, Kilkenny and Lukin street, London.
… Street, London (1843-1854) and 20 from the Union Workhouse Famine cemetery, Kilkenny, Ireland (1847-51), mean bone collagen isotope values were established for the well-documented Irish pre-Famine potato-based diet (¿15N 10.6¿, ¿13C -19.1¿), and the diet of contemporaneous Londoners (¿15N 12.6¿, …
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Pedagogies Of Power: Gender, Race, And Bridewell Hospital On The Early Modern Stage
… takes shape: London’s Bridewell Hospital, a workhouse, prison, and charitable institution founded to reform “lewd” women. When “Bridewell” is staged as a setting, I suggest that it is not just a backdrop but a political filter atop the action of the scene that freezes the play and the woman’s …
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The Rusted Gate
… life. Though she’s lived in the same L—ville workhouse for as long as she can remember, she still hopes for a chance to see the beautiful world beyond. When a personal tragedy sends her into the countryside, she takes a post as a maid for the stern and reclusive Ms. Tristana Edgely, a fossil …
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The treatment of the aged poor in five selected West Kent parishes from Settlement to Speenhamland (1662-1797)
… medical and nursing care; the role of the workhouse. The investigation has been carried beyond the limits of relief provided by the mechanisms of the Old Poor Law alone, to include external supportive agencies, such as the support of family and charity, which includes both charitable trusts …
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Christopher Waddington’s Peers : A Study of the Workings of the Poor Law in townships of the Fylde of Lancashire, 1803 to 1865
… the question of the alleged cruelty of the Workhouses under the New Poor Law as it operated in the Fylde is briefly considered and it is shown that inmates of the Fylde Union Workhouse were relatively fortunate as far as living conditions were concerned and that the ‘less eligibility’ arose …
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Making the Poor Work : Social Assistance and Activation in Sweden
… questions in social policy during the workhouse era of the nineteenth century as well as in current discussions on social assistance and activation of recipients. The first part contains a discussion on the concepts of poverty, marginalisation, and social exclusion, and continues with …
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Growing Old in Oxford 1930-1960
… the Cowley Road Hospital, originally built as a workhouse in the nineteenth century provided this treatment over this period of time. The thesis investigates the relationship of this institution to the broader community in relation to the care of old people. From the 1930s geriatric medicine, a …
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Pauper education in Victorian England: organisation and administration within the new poor law 1834-1880
… century pauper training. At Atcham, a model workhouse school was part of Baldwin Leighton's thirty-year strict relief policy. At Quatt, William Whitmore was closely identified with the establishment of one of the few successful rural District Schools. In Ellesmere, limited Poor Law schooling …
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Exhuming insights: what burial records can tell us about the aged poor and emerging welfare provision in Limerick City, 1875 to 1925
… that of men is of particular note. Data from the workhouse in Limerick, combined with a review of political debate and social commentary at the time, indicates that the Old Age Pension was a significant contributor to the observed increases in life expectancy. A geographical analysis, comparing …
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The Famine Years in Queen's County 1845-1850
… from the view of the Guardians who ran the workhouse. The day to day running of the house as well as the important issues which faced them as the famine worsened are examined. The conclusions reached include Queen's as being one of the worst effected counties in the province of Leinster in …
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