Sökt på: Peter Higginbotham
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Workhouses of Wales and the Welsh Borders
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 …
The Prison Cookbook
This copiously illustrated book takes the lid off the real story of prison food. Including the full text of an original prison cookery manual compiled at Parkhurst Prison in 1902, …
Workhouses of the Midlands
The workhouse system officially ended in 1930, and the world in now a very different place. Many former workhouse buildings have vanished; the survivors, ironically, have often …
Children's Homes
What image does the word orphanage conjure up in your mind? A sunny scene of carefree children at play in the grounds of a large ivy-clad house? Or a forbidding grey edifice …
Life in a Victorian Workhouse
The word 'workhouse' has a grim resonance even today, conjuring up a vision of the darker side of Victorian Britain. Almost every town had at least one workhouse, and most people …
Children's Homes
What image does the word orphanage conjure up in your mind? A sunny scene of carefree children at play in the grounds of a large ivy-clad house? Or a forbidding grey edifice whose …
The Workhouse Encyclopedia
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 …
A Grim Almanac of the Workhouse
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 …
On the Road: First-hand accounts of visits to workhouse casual wards from Somerset to Yorkshire (1928-35)
The Workhouse Cookbook
This wonderfully evocative read explores every aspect of life – and diet – in the workhouse. Including a complete reprint of the 1901 Manual of Workhouse Cookery, and with more …
Workhouses of London and the South East
Our image of workhouses has often been coloured by the writings of authors such as Charles Dickens. But what was the reality? Where exactly were all these institutions located - …
Workhouses of Wales and the Welsh Borders
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 …