I learnt so much of Victorian times in this very well kept museum. The museum is much larger than it appears on the outside, it is extremely well conserved and has a lot of information to learn about Workhouses in Great Britain, their origin, evolution, the Old a...
Many men plastered their hair with Brylcreem in those days and the oil used in Victorian times was Macassar. 2021-07-11 17:25:36 回应 Mr. Joseph Collett Coal fires were to become obsolete due to the 1960s Clean Air legislation, but in the middle fifties they were the only form of ...
The staff were dressed up in period costume, the children got to dress up and experience a lesson in the Victorian schoolroom, we walked in the exercise yard and experienced the winding entrance that made sure males and females never met and the rooms that were flats in later...
Since Elizabethan times, poor relief had been administered at the parish level, with the dole arriving at the door of the cottagers in need. It was decided in the 1830’s that this was maintaining a system of pauperism and that the new system would be a National system, that removed the...
The Victorian Web - The Victorian Poor Law and Life in the Workhouse: An Overview (Jan. 25, 2025) (Show more) See all related content workhouse, institution to provide employment for paupers and sustenance for the infirm, found in England from the 17th through the 19th century and also ...
The Victorian Web - The Victorian Poor Law and Life in the Workhouse: An Overview (Jan. 25, 2025) (Show more) See all related content Poor Law, in British history, body of laws undertaking to provide relief for the poor, developed in 16th-century England and maintained, with various ch...