@Workhouses

https://xitter.cf/t.co/w6DIcD2CWJ - Everything about the workhouse- 1000s of pages of material, photos, maps etc. For more about me see https://xitter.cf/t.co/wyQmLOXnXR

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The amazing 1767 Chester Workhouse disaster hoax! youtube.com/watch?v=F-5xM8Ws…

The Incredible Chester Workhouse Hoax of 1767,

Think that fake news going viral across the media is a modern pheno...

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Mary Berry and I discover her workhouse ancestors - Who Do You Think You Are, 10pm Sun 18th Oct. Really TV (Freeview: Channel 44. Sky: 142, Virgin Media: 129 Freesat: 160).
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Free book download: Tyranny and Oppression in the English and Welsh Workhouse, 1780-1930 by Paul Carter and Steven King. londonpublishingpartnership.…

Petty Tyranny and Oppression: Workhouse Lives Under the Long Nineteenth-Century Poor Laws - LPP -...

This book focuses on one of the most contentious areas of English and Welsh poor law history: the exercise of petty tyranny by officials on the workhouse poor, drawing on many thousands of accounts...

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Free online talk by Prof Steven King and Dr Paul Carter from National Archives 2pm Fri 25 Sep based on their recent book, ‘Petty Tyranny and Oppression: Lives Under the Long Nineteenth-Century Poor Laws’. Book tickets at eventbrite.co.uk/e/tyranny-a…
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Heritage Open Says start today. For it I've do a video talk on the Leeds workhouse and its evolution into St James's Hospital. youtube.com/watch?v=BQuv18Ht…

From Paupers to Patients:The Story of the Leeds Workhouse / St James's Hospital

From Paupers to Patients:The Story of the Leeds Workhouse from its ...

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First look at Ripon Workhouse Museum after £2.8million refurb yourharrogate.co.uk/local-ne…

First look at Ripon Workhouse Museum after £2.8million refurb

Ripon's Workhouse Museum has reopened after a £2.8 million redevelopment that promises to immerse visitors in the realities of Victorian life.

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Free 1-day workshop in Kendal on Pauper Letters - see eventbrite.co.uk/e/writing-u…

Writing under Stress: The Meaning and Materiality of Pauper Letters

A free one-day workshop at Stricklandgate House, Kendal, for anyone with an interest in the history of poverty, literacy and welfare.

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New book: 'Petty Tyranny and Oppression: Workhouse Lives Under the Long Nineteenth-Century Poor Laws' by Paul Carter and Steve King amzn.to/4vtsN2d
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New book 'Workhouse Lives: Staffing Institutions Under the Old and New Poor Laws' edited by Steve King & Samantha Shave amzn.to/3PZ3dD5

Workhouse Lives: Staffing Institutions Under the Old and New Poor Laws (States, People, and the...

Workhouse Lives: Staffing Institutions Under the Old and New Poor Laws (States, People, and the History of Social Change)

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I'm giving online talk this Sat (21st) 4.30pm as part of Surname Society conference. Open to all - free registration at eventbrite.co.uk/e/surname-s… More info at threads.com/@thesurnamesocie…

Surname Society AGM 2026

Annual AGM

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New diets for you to try! whodoyouthinkyouaremagazine.…

From the workhouse diet to chewing 100 times: weight loss expert evaluates diet tips from the past...

We look at the history of dieting, including workhouse diets, the Banting diet, Fletcherism and the Atkins diet

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Christmas in the workhouse - with a pudding recipe to feed 300! workhouses.org.uk/Christmas/
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Inside Liverpool's largest workhouse - a 2-part feature from Radio Merseyside bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0m0ck5…

BBC Radio Merseyside - Hidden Merseyside, Inside Liverpool's largest workhouse

What was life like for those who lived in Brownlow Hill workhouse.

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Fraom the Lancashire Evening post, 1912:
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4,500+ bodies discovered in unmarked workhouse mass grave in Bristol kentucky.com/news/nation-wor…

More than 4,500 unmarked graves found at Victorian workhouse in UK. ‘Dark chapter’

The site was a prisoner-of-war camp and cholera hospital before it was converted to a workhouse, archaeologists said.

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Recently did a short podcast segment for U3A (University of the Third Age) youtu.be/2vmRNt1qMR8?si=x38j…
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A 1928 account of 18 months spent in a London workhouse. workhouses.org.uk/lit/LifeIn…

The Workhouse Website

A Comprehensive History of the Workhouse by Peter Higginbotham

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Listen: What does it mean when Minnesota courts sentence offenders to 'the workhouse'? - goo.gl/alerts/w8cCbM #GoogleAlerts
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I have a feature covering some of the less obvious workhouse records in the Feb 2024 Who Do You Think You Are? magazine.
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