General
- Introduction
- Primary Sources (34 items)
- Individuals (12 items)
Historical Context, 1600-1860
- The Elizabethan Poor Law (1601)
- The Settlement Acts (1662)
- Knatchbull's Act (1723) — the Workhouse Test Act
- Gilbert's Act (1782)
- The Speenhamland System (1795)
- Changing attitudes towards poverty after 1815
- The Sturges-Bourne Acts (1818-9)
- The Royal Commission into the operation of the Poor Laws (1832)
- The Poor Law Commission
- The Royal Commission: Members
- The Poor Law Amendment Act: 14 August 1834
- The implementation of the 1834 Poor Law Amendment Act
- Francis Power Cobbe and workhouse visitation
The workhouse
- Workhouse Rules
- Workhouse officers
- Rotherham
- Southwell
- Marygate Workhouse, York
- (Former) St. Pancras Workhouse
- (Former) York Union Workhouse
- (Former) York Union Workhouse Chapel
- Rotherham
- Fulham and Hammersmith
Opposition and Protest
- The Anti-Poor Law Movement
- Attack on the Workhouse at Stockport, 1842
- Cartoons and verse about poverty, starvation, and the Poor Laws in Fun
- Review of Elizabeth T. Hurren's Protesting about Pauperism: Poverty, Politics and Poor Relief in Late-Victorian England, 1870-1900.
The Poorlaw and Workhouses in Victorian Literature and the Visual Arts
- The Architecture of the Workhouse
- Clothing in the Workhouse
- Contemporary depictions of the Workhouse
- The Poorlaw and Workhouses in Victorian Literature (7 items)
Created 2001
Last modified 4 April 2022