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Workhouse

In Britain and Ireland, a workhouse (Welsh: tloty, lit. "poor-house") was a total institution where those unable to support themselves financially were offered accommodation and employment. In Scotland, they were usually known as poorhouses. The earliest known use of the term workhouse is from 1631, in an account by the mayor of Abingdon reporting that…

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Early Victorian workhouses

Later developments and abolition

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Workhouse

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related to Further reading · 38
Workhouse → An Account, Brown, Child Paupers Under, Co, Crompton, Downing, Employing, Florence, Frank, Green, Higginbotham, Infant, ISBN, Joseph, Joseph Downing, Longman, Longmans, Louisa, Macmillan, Maintaining
related to Georgian era · 24
Workhouse → Act, Croydon, Effingham, England, Gilbert Unions, Gilbert's Act, Henry Cook, In, It, Overseers, Poor, Poor Act, Poor Law, Relatively, Relief, Returns, So, Speenhamland, The, The Abstract
related to Religion · 24
Workhouse → Anglicans, As, Catholic, Catholics, Church, Cornwall, Each Poor Law Union, England, Even, Gunpowder Plot, Ireland, Liverpool, Mode, Poor Law, Popish Recusants Act, Religion, Religious, Religious Principles, Roman Catholic Relief Act, Scotland
related to In art and literature · 23
Workhouse → Another, Board Day Application, Bread, Charles Dickens, Charles West Cope, Christmas Day, Down, George Orwell, George Robert Sims, Guardians, In, It, London, Oliver, Oliver Twist, Out, Paris, Please, Staines Board, The
related to Work · 21
Workhouse → Andover, As, Between, Bone-crushing, Buckinghamshire, Conditions, Consolidated General Order, East End, Firewood Cutters Protection Association, In, London, Many, Matthew Marryott, Nevertheless, Poor Law Board, Poor Law Commission, Some, Some Poor Law, The, The Spike
related to Early Victorian workhouses · 20
Workhouse → After, Another, Augustus Pugin, Commissioners, English, Felix Driver, George Gilbert Scott, Jeremy Bentham's, Kempthorne, Kempthorne's, Poor Law, Poor Law Guardians, Richard Oastler, Sampson Kempthorne, Separating, Some, That, The, The New Poor Law, They
related to Education · 19
Workhouse → At St Martin, Children, Clerkenwell, Education, Fields, Historian Arthur Redford, In, In Shrewsbury, Kneller Hall, Nottingham, Poorly, Samuel Oldknow's, Some, Such, Supporting, The, Twickenham, While, Workhouses
related to Admission and discharge · 18
Workhouse → After, Also, Alternatively, Any, Bristol Incorporation, Children, Clothing, Each Poor Law Union, However, Ignominious Dress, In, Near, Poor Law Commission, Shoes, Some, The Lunacy Act, Unchaste Women, Workhouses
related to Later developments and abolition · 18
Workhouse → About, By, Crimean War, Elizabethan, Hunslet, Italianate, Lancashire, London, Manchester Union's, Of, One, Opened, Poor Law, Ripon, Southwark, The, West Riding, Yorkshire
related to 1834 Act · 17
Workhouse → By, Coupled, England, Gilbert Unions, In, Individual, Many, More, Napoleonic Wars, New Poor Law, Poor Law Amendment Act, Poor Law Commission, Poor Law Unions, Royal Commission, Swing Riots, The, Wales

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Workhouseis ainconvenient building0.90text
breaking stonesinstance ofMost were employed on tasks0.80text
crushing bones to produce fertiliserinstance ofMost were employed on tasks0.80text
or picking oakum using a large metal nail known as a spike.As the 19th century progressedinstance ofMost were employed on tasks0.80text
workhouses increasingly became refuges for the elderlyinstance ofMost were employed on tasks0.80text
infirminstance ofMost were employed on tasks0.80text
and sick rather than the able-bodied poorinstance ofMost were employed on tasks0.80text
and in 1929 legislation was passed to allow local authorities to take over workhouse infirmaries as municipal hospitalsinstance ofMost were employed on tasks0.80text
the Gressenhall House of Industry generally served a number of communitiesinstance ofThe larger workhouses0.80text
in Gressenhall's case 50 parishesinstance ofThe larger workhouses0.80text
sickness in the family to continue with outdoor reliefinstance ofand there was thus a powerful economic incentive to use loopholes0.80text
scabies could be detained before entering the workhouse properinstance ofwhere inmates diagnosed with skin diseases0.80text

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