Like many of those born in the workhouse, Oliver Twist is illegitimate. The various lying-in hospitals in Victorian Britain, which provided support for poorer women in childbirth, typically offered aid only to married women, so poor unmarried mothers often had no choice but to attend the workhou...
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Mary Morris, at his Hudson River home named Nevis for his father’s birthplace. He was part of the crew of the yacht America, for which the America’s Cup is named,
Those in the workhouse, who were desperately poor, were generally given some type of Christmas dinner, despite the fact that the Poor Laws had ruled against this. It would seem that the guardians of the workhouse were more humane than the government (parallels with today anyone ?) These Chris...
Martin’s Workhouse, touching the death of Mary Ann Palmer, aged fifteen years, which occurred on Tuesday last at the workhouse, having been brought there by the police, who found here on the previous Sunday in a frightful state of disease and destitution, under the dark arches of the ...
It was a pathetic existence and just a step away from the workhouse.” (L Maiklem ‘A Field Guide to Larking’ 2021). Nowadays, mudlarks have a much-improved reputation – the twenty first century mudlarks of the Thames foreshore scour the mud and debris for stories of the past. Bits ...
the Poor Law, pictures of workhouses and extracts of sources relating to workhouse life.Charles Booth Online Archivehttp://www.lse.ac.uk/booth/Includes original documents from his survey of London poverty 1886–1903.Syllabus for a course on English poverty, from the final decade of the ...
In Mullingar, for example, the Walkers learned from local historian Ruth Illingworth that 100 young women were sent from the Workhouse to Quebec City in 1853. In Dublin, the costumed walkers boarded the period ship Jeannie Johnston in a poignant moment. Following a programme of speakers and ...
No wonder women prisoners thought was an ‘every-day, toilsome, wearisome life’, though better than the workhouse (!) Millbank ‘dietary’. Monotonous and unhealthy Mayhew and Binny were allowed into the kitchens at breakfast time to see the women’s breakfasts served. There were three kitche...
31 Lane, "The Doctor Scolds Me"; Beveridge, Life in the Asylum; Kleinman, The Illness Narratives; Green, Pauper Protests; Tomkins, Workhouse Medical Care; Humphries, Care and Cruelty in the Workhouse; Hamlett, At Home in the Institution. 32 For example, Ahlbeck, Diagnostisering och ...