The English workhouse

<p>This thesis charts the course of the eighteenth-century workhouse movement from the foundation of the Bristol Corporation of the Poor in 1696 to mid-century. It is divided roughly in two. Chapters 2 and 3 deal with the attempted national and parliamentary reforms of the 1690s and 1700s and...

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Main Authors: Hitchcock, T, Hitchcock, Timothy
Format: Thesis
Language:English
Published: 1985
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