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Workhouse Booklist

Below is a list of selecetd workhouse and poor-law related publications.
To buy in-print titles at discount prices, visit the workhouse bookstore.

• Workhouses of the Midlands by Peter Higginbotham (2007)
• Workhouses of the North by Peter Higginbotham (2006)
• Fearnought - Poems for the Southwell Workhouse by Mario Petrucci (2006)
• Life in the Victorian and Edwardian Workhouse by Michelle Higgs looks at life for the various categories of workhouse inmates and staff.
• At the Overseer's Door by Ray Whitehand — a comprehensive survey of Suffolk's parish workhouses.
• Workhouse by Simon Fowler — The People — The Places — The Life Behind Doors.
• The Real Oliver Twist by John Waller — the story of orphan Robert Blincoe whose childhood in the St Pancras workhouse may have been the basis for Dickens' character.
• The Workhouse by Norman Longmate — a reissue of this classic book
• The Victorian Workhouse by Trevor May — an excellent introduction
• Poverty and Poor Law Reform in Nineteenth Century Britain, 1834-1914: From Chadwick to Booth by David Englander
• The English Poor Laws 1700-1930 by Anthony Brundage — a very readable survey
• Poverty and Public Health: 1815-1914 by Rosemary Rees
• Poverty and Welfare, 1830-1914 by Peter Murray
• The Workhouse System 1834-1929 by Margaret Crowther
• Workhouse Children by Frank Crompton
• The Union Workhouse: A Study Guide by Andy Reid
• The Workhouse by Kathryn Morrison
• English Hospitals: 1660-1948 by Harriet Richardson
• Record Offices: How to Find Them by Jeremy Gibson
• Poor Law Documents Before 1834 by Cole, Anne
• Poor Law Unions Vol 1: South England and East Anglia by Jeremy Gibson
• Poor Law Unions Vol 2: Midlands and North England by Jeremy Gibson
• Poor Law Union Records Vol 3: South-West England, the Marches and Wales by Jeremy Gibson
• Poor Law Union Records: 4. Gazetteer of England and Wales by Jeremy Gibson
• Fiche: Name Index to Poor Law Settlement Papers Essex Record Office
• The English Poor Law, 1531-1782 by Paul Slack
• Women and the Poor Law, 1870-1948 by Moira Martin
• Power and Pauperism: The Workhouse System, 1834-1884 by Felix Driver
• Poverty and Poor Law Reform in Nineteenth-century Britain, 1834-1914 by David Englander
• A-Z of Victorian London by GW Bacon (Victorian street maps of London)
• Bristol and the New Poor Law by David Large and Peter Harris
• At the Crossroads by Marlene and Graham Langley (History of Arclid Workhouse)
• From the Workhouse to the Pye House by Amanda Peckham and Gill Humby (A History of Bromley Common)
• Victorian Workhouse (Bromsgrove) by Neville Land
• Christchurch and Bournemouth Union Workhouse by Susan Newman
• From Workhouse with Infirmary to NHS Hospital: First 10 Years of Christchurch NHS Hospital by Reinhard Lindner
• Richard Hutton's Complaints Book: Notebook of Steward of Quaker Workhouse Clerkenwell, 1711-1737 by R Hutton & TV Hitchcock
• Coventry Workhouse Birth Registers 1854-1930 by Beverley Wishart
• Coventry Workhouse Death Registers 1845-1943 by Beverley Wishart
• Workhouses of Purton and the Cricklade and Wootton Bassett Union by Alec Robbins
• Foleshill Union Workhouse by Eileen Castle, Beverley Wishart, Yvonne Brannigan, Jim Brannigan
• Hayfield Union Workhouse by Joan Powell
• Macclesfield Workhouse by Jennifer Ann Jones and Thomas Brigg
• Life in the Workhouse — The Story of the Milton Union, Kent by Helen Allinson
• From Workhouse to Hospital: Naas Hospital (1838-1998) by Nick Coy and Ger McCarthy
• Oldchurch: the Workhouse Story by Ian S. Moore
• Ospringe Workhouse Admissions and Discharges, 1805-08 and 1827-35 by Raymond Godfrey
• Down Poorhouse Lane: Diary of a Rochdale workhouse by J Cole
• Shere Poverty From Parish Workhouse to Union Workhouse by Ann Noyes
• Gin, Ale & Poultices: Solihull Workhouse and Hospital 1742-1993 by Joy Woodall
• One Monday in November: the History of the Selborne & Headley Workhouse Riots of 1830 by John Owen Smith
• Poverty and the Poor Law in the North Riding of Yorkshire, c.1780-1837
• From White House to Workhouse by Peter Howorth (biography of Yorkshireman Sir Luke White)
• From Workhouse to Prison to... the Titanic? by Dinah Burnett
• Poor Relief in Merthyr Tydfil Union in Victorian Times by Tydfil Thomas
• The Workhouses of Ireland by John O'Connor
• Poor Law and the Workhouse in Belfast, 1838-1948 by Michael Farrell
• Workhouse Story by Eamon Lonnergan (History of St Patrick's Hospital, Cashel)
• Hospital at Magherafelt: The Workhouse — The Final Fifty Years (1891-1941) by Margaret Moore
• Hospital at Magherafelt: The Workhouse and Famine Times in South Derry by Muriel Bell
• Famine and Community in Mullingar Poor Law Union, 1845-1849 by Seamus O'Brien
• The Great Famine in Nenagh Poor Law Union, Co. Tipperary by Daniel Grace
• Robert Whyte's 1847 Famine Ship Diary by Robert Whyte, edited James Mangan.
• The Irish Famine by Peter Gray
• In the Shadow of the Poorhouse: A Social History of Welfare in America. by Michael B. Katz
• From the Poor Law to the Welfare State: a History of Social Welfare in America by Walter I. Trattner

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