EditorialBeggars leaving London for their workhouse. Disabled mendicants on crutches in patchwork coats and rags. Copperplate etching drawn and engraved by John Thomas Smith from his Vagabondiana, Anecdotes of Mendicant Wanderers through the Streets of London, ...
EditorialMotherless Mary entreating Charlotte Bouverie to visit her afflicted parent'. Two women of the regency era. Motherless Mary; or, The interesting history of a friendless orphan, who, being at her mother's death, left entirely destitute, is taken to the ...
EditorialCatherine Warman, lived to the age of 107 and died in 1755. She wears a cloak with the initials of St. Martin's Parish workhouse, and holds a scroll with the image of King Charles I to commemorate the era of her birth. Copperplate engraving by R. Grave...
EditorialMargaret Patten, born in Glasgow 1596, died in St. Margaret's workhouse, Westminster, 1739, aged 143. Copperplate engraving from John Caulfield's Portraits, Memoirs and Characters of Remarkable Persons, Young, London, 1819.
EditorialAn illustration of London’s Strand Union Workhouse, built in the 1770s, which inspired the novel “Oliver Twist” by Charles Dickens. (Patrick Arrasmith/The New York Times)
EditorialA book with text and a table explaining the duration of workhouse loans verses annual installments of principal and interest at the rate of 3 and a half. Knight's guide to the arrangement and construction of workhouse buildings, with notes and diagrams...
EditorialEngraving, Public Office & Workhouse, Birmingham Engraver: William Radclyffe Engraver: Thomas Radclyffe Engraver: C Radclyffe, Topographical Views, Architecture, Printing, Engraving, Birmingham history.
EditorialJust - starve - us. The overseer of a workhouse with the inhabitants. [Gustave iii. Vive, vive a jamais ] "Just starve us," comic song. London, 1843. Source: H.1260.(1). Language: English.
EditorialJust - starve - us. The overseer of a workhouse with the inhabitants. [Gustave iii. Vive, vive a jamais ] "Just starve us," comic song. London, 1843. Source: H.1260.(1). Language: English.
EditorialBeggars leaving London for their workhouse. Disabled mendicants on crutches in patchwork coats and rags. Copperplate etching drawn and engraved by John Thomas Smith from his Vagabondiana, Anecdotes of Mendicant Wanderers through the Streets of London, ...
EditorialA diagram showing the block plan of a workhouse to hold around 280 inmates. Knight's guide to the arrangement and construction of workhouse buildings, with notes and diagrams of the requirements and recommendations of the Local Government Board, in reg...
EditorialA plan or design for a workhouse. Knight's guide to the arrangement and construction of workhouse buildings, with notes and diagrams of the requirements and recommendations of the Local Government Board, in regard to the erection of Poor Law institutio...
EditorialA plan or design for a workhouse. Knight's guide to the arrangement and construction of workhouse buildings, with notes and diagrams of the requirements and recommendations of the Local Government Board, in regard to the erection of Poor Law institutio...
EditorialA plan or design for a workhouse. Knight's guide to the arrangement and construction of workhouse buildings, with notes and diagrams of the requirements and recommendations of the Local Government Board, in regard to the erection of Poor Law institutio...
EditorialA diagram showing the block plan of a workhouse to hold around 100 inmates. Knight's guide to the arrangement and construction of workhouse buildings, with notes and diagrams of the requirements and recommendations of the Local Government Board, in reg...
EditorialA newspaper article about the trial of a women who murdered her child in Bingham workhouse. Illustration of a women, Mary Ann Parr, in a prison cell. Trial & lamentation of Mary Ann Parr who now lies under sentence of death for the murder of her own c...
EditorialA plan or design for a workhouse. Knight's guide to the arrangement and construction of workhouse buildings, with notes and diagrams of the requirements and recommendations of the Local Government Board, in regard to the erection of Poor Law institutio...
EditorialA plan or design for a workhouse. Knight's guide to the arrangement and construction of workhouse buildings, with notes and diagrams of the requirements and recommendations of the Local Government Board, in regard to the erection of Poor Law institutio...
EditorialA plan or design for a rural workhouse for 500 people. Knight's guide to the arrangement and construction of workhouse buildings, with notes and diagrams of the requirements and recommendations of the Local Government Board, in regard to the erection o...
EditorialMotherless Mary entreating Charlotte Bouverie to visit her afflicted parent'. Two women of the regency era. Motherless Mary; or, The interesting history of a friendless orphan, who, being at her mother's death, left entirely destitute, is taken to the ...
EditorialA diagram showing the block plan of an infirmary the would hold about 500 patients. Knight's guide to the arrangement and construction of workhouse buildings, with notes and diagrams of the requirements and recommendations of the Local Government Board...
EditorialA diagram showing a block plan of a workhouse to hold about 700 adult inmates. Knight's guide to the arrangement and construction of workhouse buildings, with notes and diagrams of the requirements and recommendations of the Local Government Board, in ...
EditorialA book with text and a table explaining the duration of workhouse loans verses annual installments of principal and interest at the rate of 3 and a half. Knight's guide to the arrangement and construction of workhouse buildings, with notes and diagrams...
EditorialJust - starve - us. The overseer of a workhouse with the inhabitants. [Gustave iii. Vive, vive a jamais ] "Just starve us," comic song. London, 1843. Source: H.1260.(1). Language: English.
EditorialBeggars leaving London for their workhouse. Disabled mendicants on crutches in patchwork coats and rags. Copperplate etching drawn and engraved by John Thomas Smith from his Vagabondiana, Anecdotes of Mendicant Wanderers through the Streets of London, ...
EditorialCatherine Warman, lived to the age of 107 and died in 1755. She wears a cloak with the initials of St. Martin's Parish workhouse, and holds a scroll with the image of King Charles I to commemorate the era of her birth. Copperplate engraving by R. Grave...
EditorialMargaret Patten, born in Glasgow 1596, died in St. Margaret's workhouse, Westminster, 1739, aged 143. Copperplate engraving from John Caulfield's Portraits, Memoirs and Characters of Remarkable Persons, Young, London, 1819.