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Jul 30, 2020 · On the night of November 14, 1917, 31 suffragists and members of the National Woman’s Party (“NWP”) were taken to Occoquan Workhouse in Virginia and tortured and beaten. This so-called “Night of Terror” captured national headlines at the time and has been memorialized through digital sites today.
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A Parliamentary report of 1861 found that, nation-wide, over 20 percent of inmates had been in the workhouse for more than five years. These were mostly consisted of elderly, chronically sick, and mentally ill paupers.
Nov 25, 2023 · Was the workhouse howl real? What happened in the workhouse to cause this guttural scream? Here's what life in the workhouse was really like, and some more mind-blowing facts on workhouses.
- Vermin-Infested Rags
- Divided Families?
- “Unclimbable” Fences
Another common misconception is that the poor were “sentenced” to the workhouse. Entering a workhouse was essentially a voluntary decision, though many people’s circumstances left them little option other than to accept the offer of a place. The workhouse admission process included the issuing of workhouse clothing, which has sometimes been viewed ...
As well as the influence of Oliver Twist, the reputation of the union workhouse in its early years was assaulted by anti-Poor Law sections of the press which publicised any negative story about the institution, no matter how dubious its origins. Opponents of the New Poor Law particularly criticised the separation of husbands and wives and of parent...
Yet inmates still managed to find ways around the restrictions. In 1905, to clamp down on such activities, Steyning workhouse installed “unclimbable” fencing between the men’s and women’s yards. After it became clear that inmates were still somehow managing to arrange secret trysts, an inquiry discovered that the male and female sides of the workho...
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Aug 8, 2019 · The exact origins of the workhouse however have a much longer history. They can be traced back to the Poor Law Act of 1388. In the aftermath of the Black Death, labour shortages were a major problem. The movement of workers to other parishes in search of higher paid work was restricted.
Where were all the buildings, what happened to them and where are their records? Were there differences between the workhouses in England and Wales? And how did some parts of Wales resist the introduction of the workhouse until the 1870s? More...
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This article has identified the care of the sick and vulnerable at night in the workhouse as problematic, as a result of the unsuitability of buildings and facilities, the use of pauper nurses and the resistance to employing trained nurses at night.
