Voices from the Workhouse

By: PETER HIGGINBOTHAM

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Paperback | 27 September 2012

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Voices from the Workhouse tells the real inside story of the workhouse - in the words of those who experienced the institution at first hand, either as inmates or through some other connection with the institution. Using a wide variety of sources — letters, poems, graffiti, autobiography, official reports, testimony at official inquiries, and oral history, Peter Higginbotham creates a vivid portrait of what really went on behind the doors of the workhouse — all the sights, sounds and smells of the place, and the effect it had on those whose lives it touched. Was the workhouse the cruel and inhospitable place as which it's often presented, or was there more to it than that? This book lets those who knew the place provide the answer.

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Acknowledgements	p. 7
Introduction	p. 8
A Workhouse Timeline	p. 11
Inmates	p. 13
London Corporation Workhouse: Poor Out-Cast Children's Song and Cry	p. 14
Dinner Speech at the Bishopsgate Workhouse	p. 15
London Pauper Farms	p. 16
Reflections on My Own Situation	p. 18
When I Was a Child	p. 19
Written from Newmarket Union	p. 25
Letters of Complaint to the Poor Law Commissioners	p. 27
Anonymous: An Unemployed London Carpenter	p. 31
Autobiography	p. 33
Neglect at St Giles's Workhouse	p. 38
Workhouse Graffiti	p. 39
'W.H.R.': The Autobiography of a Pauper Boy	p. 43
Indoor Paupers	p. 48
Newington Workhouse and Hanwell School	p. 61
Shoreditch Union Cottage Homes	p. 65
Stockbridge Workhouse and Southampton Cottage Homes	p. 70
A London Workhouse Infirmary	p. 74
Croydon Union Workhouse and Children's Homes	p. 75
Workhouse Staff and Administrators	p. 78
Steward of the Quaker Workhouse at Clerkenwell	p. 79
The Anti-Pauper System	p. 81
Master of the Barnet Union Workhouse	p. 84
Extracts from the Diary of a Workhouse Chaplain	p. 86
Profitable Employment of Paupers on Workhouse Land	p. 89
Reminiscences of a Workhouse Medical Officer	p. 91
Are Workhouses Made Unduly Attractive?	p. 100
Evidence to a Local Government Board Inquiry	p. 104
Growing up in the Workhouse	p. 107
Workhouse Days Remembered	p. 114
Reports and Inquiries	p. 119
Anonymous: An Account of Several Work-houses	p. 119
The State of the Poor	p. 121
1832 Royal Commission on the Poor Laws: Bethnal Green Workhouse	p. 123
The Bulcamp House of Industry, Suffolk	p. 125
Evidence to the Select Committee on Andover Union	p. 127
The Lancet: Reports on Metropolitan Workhouse Infirmaries	p. 130
Poor Law Board Inspection Reports	p. 134
British Medical Journal: Reports on Workhouse Infirmaries	p. 139
1905 Royal Commission: Visits to Poor Law Institutions	p. 147
The Work and Play of a Government Inspector	p. 155
Social Explorers	p. 161
A Night in a Workhouse	p. 162
The Female Casual and her Lodging	p. 173
The People of the Abyss	p. 180
A First Night in the Workhouse Tramp Ward	p. 185
The Tramp: His Meaning and Being	p. 190
Visitors	p. 194
The North Dublin Workhouse	p. 194
Recollections of Life and Work	p. 197
A Day in a Pauper Palace	p. 199
Wapping Workhouse	p. 205
Anonymous: London Pauper Burials	p. 208
The Sheffield Union Workhouse	p. 212
Anonymous: A Phonograph at the Haslingden Workhouse	p. 215
References and Notes	p. 219
Index	p. 223
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