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Showing 1 to 20 of 48 for “"poor law"”.
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The Poor Law in Rural Lancashire 1820-50.
… is concerned with the implementation of the New Poor Law in the rural unions in Lancashire. It explores the effects of the legislation upon policies for poor relief and concludes that they can be most appropriately summarised as resulting in change. However, where attitudes towards the poor are …
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The Poor Law Union and the Famine in Carlow 1845-1847
… looks at the background to the introduction of a Poor Law System to Ireland and the various commissions and reports prior to its introduction. It also looks briefly at the setting up of the system in Ireland. The third chapter looks briefly at the setting up of the Poor Law Union of Carlow, its …
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Children and childhood under the Irish Poor Law, c. 1850-1914
This thesis examines the provision of poor relief for children under the Irish Poor Law during the post-Famine era, and it argues that prevailing social constructs of childhood had a major influence upon how welfare was provided for the children within the workhouse institutions. The Irish Poor …
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Poor law reform and policy innovation in rural southern England, c.1780-1850
Recent analysis in poor law history has uncovered the experiences of individual relief claimants and recipients, emphasising their role in the welfare process. The literature has, however, tended to draw a false dichotomy between understanding the experiences of the individual poor and …
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The Introduction and Operation of the New Poor Law in Suffolk 1834-70
This thesis examines the introduction of the Poor Law Amendment Act of 1834 into Suffolk between the years 1834-71. It looks at the poor law system as it was immediately prior to this time and the increasing difficulties it faced in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. It also …
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From the Poor law to New Labour: a comparative analysis of interventions to support families
… casework have played since the time of the Poor Law, and places these changes within the wider child care policy context. It highlights the importance of the Children Act 1989 to the recent development of support services for families. It argues that placing family support services within a …
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Pauper education in Victorian England: organisation and administration within the new poor law 1834-1880
The 1834 Poor Law Amendment Act led to the first national system of education for approximately 50,000 indoor pauper children each year in a decade of early initiatives on working class education to combat social unrest and political protest. Pauper schooling involved central supervision, …
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Between a Rock and a Hard Place. THe Poor Law Commission's Migration scheme, 1835-37
… was carried out under the auspices of the Poor Law Commission's home migration scheme (one of the first attempts at social engineering by a modem British government agency), but approximately the same numbers followed them independently. The research described investigates the aspirations …
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The Poor Law in Bradford c. 1834-1871. A study of the relief of poverty in mid-nineteenth century Bradford.
… has been a proliferation of local studies of Poor Law administration, many of them concerned with the period of transition from the Old to the New Poor Laws. This thesis complements other local studies; it offers a detailed examination of Poor Law administration in and around the rapidly …
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Implementing and administering the New Poor Law in the industrial north: a case study of Preston union in regional context, 1837-1861
This thesis examines Poor Law administration in the urban industrial union of Preston, Lancashire, from the introduction of the Poor Law Amendment Act in the region in 1837 to the eve of the Lancashire Cotton Famine in 1861. For many years historiography has emphasised that, despite the attempt to …
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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
… into the workings of both the Old and the New Poor Law at the local level. By a close examination of three townships of an ancient Fylde, Lancashire, parish and of its successor union it seeks to answer three questions. Firstly, whilst it is accepted that there were differences in the operation …
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The blind, the deaf and the halt : physical disability, the Poor Law and charity c. 1830-1890, with particular reference to the County
… the situation of the physically disabled poor over the period c. 1830-1890. It concentrates initially on the treatment of these individuals under the Poor Law and then proceeds to examine voluntary provision, focusing in particular on the special schools that were established at this time. …
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'The sick poor and the quest for medical relief in Oxfordshire ca. 1750-1834'
… access to medical relief under the English New Poor Law of 1834 has attracted both scholarly attention and systematic study from historians of welfare and medicine, the nature of relief under the Old Poor Law has remained comparatively under-researched. The parochial nature of its …
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The 'Bury-al Board': poverty, politics and poor relief in the Brixworth Union, Northamptonshire c.1870-1900
… era, is a neglected topic of nineteenth century poor law studies. This thesis examines the crusade against outrelief that was implemented in the Brixworth Union of Northamptonshire because this board of guardians was one of the strongest and most renowned supporters of central government’s …
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Paternalistic, Parsimonious Pragmatists: The Wigan Board of Guardians and the Administration of the Poor Laws 1880-1900
This thesis analyses poor law administration in Wigan Union from 1880-1900. The late-nineteenth century is fertile territory for poor law historians, and this study intends to further enhance our understanding of the period. Local studies are vital given that the weakness of central authority …
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Poverty, savings banks and the development of self-help, c. 1775-1834
… ideology and as an organisational principle for poor relief and how it came to dominate discussions over poverty and crucially inform the Poor Law Amendment Act of 1834. The continuity of self-help with earlier discussions and reviews of the poor laws is explored and emphasised, as is the …
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