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Unless otherwise indicated, the contents of all pages on this website (www.workhouses.org.uk) are the copyright of Peter Higginbotham. I assert the moral right to be identified as the author of all such material.

Users may access the site's content solely for their own personal, non-commercial, non-public use. Teachers and educators may use content for non-profit, non-public, educational purposes only and should acknowledge this web-site as the source. Users must not otherwise download or copy, store in any medium (including any other web site), distribute, transmit, re-transmit, modify, or otherwise publicly display any part of this site without my prior written consent.

Copyright in some material included on this site is held by third parties who have given permission for its use. In the case of pictures this is normally indicated in a caption accompanying the image. If any material on this site inadvertently infringes copyright, please contact me.

Material for which I hold copyright may, subject to prior written agreement, be available for commercial use. Many of the images from my collection ara available via the Mary Evans Picture Library.

If you have any queries relating to copyright issues or the reproduction of material from this site, please email me (Peter.Higginbotham@workhouses.org.uk). Please include precise details of the material involved (e.g. the URL of the web page, image etc.) and the use you have in mind (e.g. half-page reproduction in local history book with print run of 2,000).

You are welcome to make a web link to this site — there is no need to ask permission. The text accompanying your link should, however, explicitly include the name of the my site (www.workhouses.org.uk), e.g.

For more information on the history of the workhouse, see Peter Higginbotham's web site: www.workhouses.org.uk.

For a page about a particular place or topic, e.g. Leeds, you could use the form www.workhouses.org.uk/Leeds.

URLs that begin "http://users.ox.ac.uk/~peter/workhouse" which formerly worked as links to this site are now obsolete and should be updated.

Citations of this Site

My basic advice is to treat my website exactly like you would a printed text-book and use the normal conventions for citing small amounts of information that you extract from it. Some examples of doing this are given below:

  • Over 250 new workhouses had been erected by 1840 (Higginbotham, 2011).
  • Over 250 new workhouses had been erected by 1840.1 [i.e. if you're using footnotes or endnotes]
  • According to the website workhouses.org.uk over 250 new workhouses had been erected by 1840.
  • Gilbert's Act of 1782 "simplified the procedures for parishes to set up and run workhouses."2

In the notes/references/bibliography of your work, the reference would then typically be along the lines of:

Higginbotham, Peter "The Workhouse" <http://www.workhouses.org.uk/> Date consulted

for example,

Higginbotham, Peter "The Workhouse" <http://www.workhouses.org.uk/> consulted 16 April 2011.

Entries for individual page or places take a similar form, e.g. for the Cambridge entry:

Higginbotham, Peter "Cambridge Poor Law Union and Workhouse" <http://www.workhouses.org.uk/Cambridge/> consulted 16 April 2011.

Or for the page on Poor Laws:

Higginbotham, Peter "The Poor Laws" <http://www.workhouses.org.uk/poorlaws/> consulted 16 April 2011.

References in the text would be in the typical form, for example:

(Higginbotham, 2011)

Please note that citing my web site as the source does not make it permissible to reproduce sections of any of my web pages, either verbatim or with just a few words changed.

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