A Comprehensive History of the Workhouse by Peter Higginbotham

Tales of Liverpool’s old workhouses linger long in the city’s memory

NOSTALGIA: Slums, poor and workhouses of Liverpool

The workhouses of Britain were a last resort. Getting yourself and your family admitted to one was something you only did if there was no other choice. It

A Comprehensive History of the Workhouse by Peter Higginbotham

A Comprehensive History of the Workhouse by Peter Higginbotham

A Comprehensive History of the Workhouse by Peter Higginbotham

Thousands of women were sent to the 'Magdalene laundries' over a 70-year period. Irish prime minister Enda Kenny apologised but victims' groups demanded a stronger statement.

The Christmas Day dinner laid on for the inmates of Victorian workhouses was a remarkable example of a benevolent attitude to the poor.

Sinéad O’Connor spoke openly about how being a survivor of one of the many Magdalene Laundry workhouses for "fallen women" affected her throughout her life.

Having fun experimenting with colouring my drawings! They were picked from workhouses or purchased from unwanting parents and trained as chimney climber... chimbley sweep [en colour]

In Victorian England the Workhouse formed the basis of society. The poor and destitute entered Workhouses to receive free health care and food. But in a soci...

Former Workhouse 1858 ~ The Poor Law Amendment Act of 1834 placed the responsibility for the care of the poor in England and Wales, from 1834 onward, on Poor Law Unions. The Poor Law Unions and their workhouses took over this responsibility from the Church of England parishes. Prior to 1834 a few parishes or collections of parishes had established a few workhouses to help relieve the poor and provide indoor relief in the form of food, clothes and shelter (Bristol 1696).

In the few years between 1848 and 1850, a total of 4114 orphan girls, each one of them drawn from bleak Irish workhouses, were chosen to sail to Australia under a remarkable, controversial and short-lived immigration scheme.

It's 1849 . . . and Nellie O'Neill is arriving in South Australia on a ship bringing orphan girls from Irish workhouses. Nellie and her best friend, Mary, have left the famine in Ireland far behind, and are full of hopes and dreams for the future.

Orphaned Oliver Twist goes from mistreatment in the London workhouses to falling in with a gang of pickpockets led by the roguish Fagin, the kindhearted Nancy, and the menacing Bill Sykes, before finally finding a home, in Lionel Bart's musical adaptation of the Charles Dickens novel.

In the 1950s, Jennifer Worth was a district midwife in East London. She worked with an order of nursing nuns, learning how to cope with midwifery in slum conditions. In the course of her training she met many interesting characters, whose stories are told in this book. When the workhouses of ...

Uit "An account of the poor-colonies and agricultural workhouses of the Benevolent Society of Holland", by a member of the Highland Society of Scotland, Edinburgh. 1. ? house 2. Guard house 3. Bake house 4. Washing house 5. Hospital 6. Burial ground 7. Canal 8 & 9. Wall of ? 10. ? 11. ?

By Leslie Lindsay  Within the gated grounds of the convent of The Sisters of the Holy Redemption lies one of Dublin’s Magdalene Laundries. Once a place of refuge, the laundries have evolved into grim workhouses, shielding “fallen women” from ever showing their faces to their families. Some of these women are unwed mothers, prostitutes, or…

In 1902 the American author Jack London visited his namesake city – at the time when it was still the largest in the world. In a book that became to be known as The People of the Abyss he described the time when he lived in the Whitechapel district sleeping in workhouses, so-called doss-houses and … Continue reading "Jack London’s Extraordinary Photos of London’s East End in 1902"