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The workhouse encyclopedia

Higginbotham, Peter2012
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Featuring hundreds of fascinating anecdotes, workhouse addresses, useful websites and archive repository details, this book explains everything you ever wanted to know about the workhouse in one illustrated volume.
Main title:
The workhouse encyclopedia / Peter Higginbotham.
Author:
Higginbotham, Peter
Imprint:
Stroud : History, 2012.
Collation:
480 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
ISBN:
9780752470122 (hbk)0752470124 (hbk)
Dewey class:
362.5'83'0941362.583362.5830941
Language:
English
Subject:
Workhouses -- Great Britain -- EncyclopediasSociety
Index terms:
Poor reliefPoor lawPoorhouseBeggarsPoorPovertyPaupersVagrantsIndustrial schoolsLegislationReformatory schoolsApproved schools
BRN:
3348722
Electronic access:
'The Workhouse' website maintained by the author.
Bookmark link:
https://westdun.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=3348722

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