print email comment close The Workhouse URL: http://www.workhouses.org.uk/ Description: The British workhouse was "a fascinating mixture of social history, politics, economics and architecture." This site includes information about life in the workhouse, education for the poor, poor law unions, parish workhouses, literature, workhouse buildings, workhouses outside Britain, and much more. Features the full text of laws enacted between 1601 and 1834, a glossary, a timeline, and a list of related links and other resources. From an amateur historian. Author: Higginbotham, Peter Extra Keywords poorhouse poor relief act elizabethan poor law settlement and removal act knatchbull's act workhouse test act gilbert's act old poor law new poor law Library of Congress Subject Headings: Great Britain -- History Poor laws -- Great Britain Public welfare -- Great Britain Workhouses LII Database Information: Record 12449 created by Dana Lubow on 12/21/2002 Last modification on 08/20/2005 Published: 12/21/2002   Funding agency: California State Library LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/12449