(Online library) Astonishing Legends The Victorian Workhouse (Shire Library)
• Trevor May •
| #3167966 in Books | 2008-03-04 | 2008-03-04 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.12 x.26 x5.88l,.18 | File Name: 0747803552 | 32 pages
||4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.| Wonderfully written, concise book|By greyhounds4me|After I watched the PBS series "Call the Midwife" I wanted more info on the British workhouse "solution" to poverty and the masses in the nineteenth and early twenieth century. This book was an eye opening source of info...makes me even more thankful for what I (personnally) have, and how far society has come from this attemp|About the Author|Trevor May is a freelance writer and lecturer, specialising in economic and social history. He is the author of more than a dozen books, including 'The Victorian Schoolroom', 'The Victorian Undertaker', 'The Victorian Domestic Servant', 'The V
Whether it was 'the batille', 'the spike', 'the work'us' or simply 'the house', the Victorian workhouse was the cause of dread and shame for thousands of men, women and children. The workhouse was the last resort, and the authorities intended that it should be seen as such. This book looks at the principles that lay beind the New Poor Law of 1834, at the design and construction of workhouses, and at the lives of those who entered them, either as officers or as paupers.<...
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