The workhouse encyclopedia
By: Peter Higginbotham
Publisher: History
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Stroud
Language: eng
Number of pages: 478
ISBN-13: 9780752470122
Subjects: Workhouses; Encyclopedias; Poverty; History; Poorhouses, poor law
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 457-470).
Table of contents: title: Timeline of workhouse and poor law history; title: A to Z encyclopedia; title: Appendixes. Poor relief statistics for England and Wales ; Poor relief statistics for Ireland ; Poor relief statistics for Scotland ; Pre-1834 Workhouses in England and Wales ; New poor law institutions in England and Wales; title: Metropolitan asylums board 1869-1930 ; Post-1838 poor law institutions in Ireland; title: Post-1845 statutory poorhouses in Scotland ; Post-1845 parish houses in Scotland ; Maps of poor law unions in England and Wales ; Maps of poor law unions in Ireland ; Maps of statutory poorhouse locations in Scotland ; Poor law archive repositories in the UK and Ireland ; Places to visit ; Some useful websites ; The consolidated general order, 1847.