This article will seek to understand how and why many prisoners interpreted in prison museums come from lower class backgrounds, and pose questions about how these interpretations contribute to or counter stereotypes about crime and poverty in Victorian England. The article will analyse the Victorian ...
In many cases, their only choice was to turn to crime - another major problem in the cities. Reconstructed Workhouse Bedroom © AboutBritain.com It became clear to many that something had to be done about poverty in Victorian England, but there were opposing thoughts and opinions. Workhouse ...
Drawing primarily upon data from the various censuses conducted in Ireland after the Act of Union in 1800, this paper seeks to elucidate the changing position of older people in Ireland during the Victorian period. Following the Great Famine of 18451849, it is argued, Ireland was transformed from...
In Poverty: The Little Girl Left out of the [Pounds Sterling]120m Annabel's Club Legacy; (1) Forgotten: Mark Birley's Granddaughter Maud with Her Mother Annette, and, Right, India Jane Birley (2) Divided Family: Robin Birley with His Half-Brothers Zac (Left) and Ben, and His Mother ...
4. Today there are 16 billionaires in sub-Saharan Africa, alongside the 358 million people living in extreme poverty 5. Seven out of ten people live in countries where the gap between rich and poor has grown in the last 30 years.
last night, the feat was finally accomplished by a charwoman from Yorkshire who has been dead for nearly a century.Paxo's tears were caused by discovering, during his researches into his family's history, that his greatgrandmother died of "TB and exhaustion" while still only in her thirties...
Poverty among the elderly in late Victorian England1 Despite rapid increases in manual workers' wages, poverty rates among the elderly remained high in late Victorian England, although they varied significantly across Poor Law Unions. This paper begins by examining the ability of workers t... GR ...
The number of poor Americans dropped sharply in that decade, only to partially rise again, particularly during the deep recession that began in 2007.But many attitudes have held steady, the new poll found, particularly doubts about the federal government’s ability to run its antipoverty programs...
CharlesBooth:MappingLondon'sPoverty,1885–1903 ByDavidFearon Background Between1886and1903CharlesBooth producedaremarkableseriesofmaps ofLondoncarefullycodedforsocial classwithdatagatheredbyvisiting, literally,everystreetinLondon.Equally remarkable,Boothdevised,fundeda researchteam,andconductedthe studyinhissparetime...
REVIEWS 81 matetoolof Victorianpatronage,' in cheapgovernment, and of course in the doublemajority.Yet, leavingasidethosenotions whichwerethe regularstock in trade of BritishNorth Americanpoliticians, how wasSandfield's political positio... SM Trofimenkoff - 《Canadian Historical Review》 被引量: 1...