Workhouse Journalism
Accounts of visits to workhouses and related establishments occasionally featured in local newspapers and some examples are listed below. Undercover visits to workhouses by also made by individuals (including journalists) posing as paupers. More information on those can be found on a separate page.
- Anonymous (1841) Two Hours in a Union Workhouse — Windsor Union Workhouse, Berkshire.
- Anonymous (1864) A Walk through the Hull Workhouse — Hull Union Workhouse, Yorkshire.
- Anonymous (1866) The Houseless Poor in Stepney — a Times report on the Stepney casual ward.
- Anonymous (1866) Midnight Visits to the Casual Wards of London — The Observer reports on London casual wards.
- Anonymous (1867) A Workhouse Probe — Leek Union Workhouse, Staffordshire.
- Anonymous (1867) A Workhouse Probe — Hursley Union Workhouse, Hampshire.
- Anonymous (1869) A Walk through Northwich Union Workhouse — Northwich Union Workhouse, Cheshire.
- Anonymous (1871) A Day in the Withington Workhouse — Chorlton Union Workhouse, Lancashire.
- Anonymous (1879) A Visit To Chelsea Workhouse — Chelsea Workhouse, West London.
- Anonymous (1879) Eastbourne Workhouse — Eastbourne Union Workhouse, Sussex.
- Anonymous (1888) A Walk through the Workhouse — Macclesfield Union Workhouse, Cheshire.
- Anonymous (1904) A Visit to the Workhouse — Bradford Union Workhouse, West Yorkshire.
- Anonymous (1910) Life in Leigh Workhouse — a report by the Leigh Courier.
- Brewer, Emma (1889-90) Workhouse Life in Town and Country — workhouse reports from across the country.
- Dickens, Charles (1849) The Paradise at Tooting — the deadly cholera epidemic at Drouet's School, Tooting (Part 1).
- Dickens, Charles (1849) The Tooting Farm — the deadly cholera epidemic at Drouet's School, Tooting (Part 2).
- Dickens, Charles (1849) A Recorder's Charge — the deadly cholera epidemic at Drouet's School, Tooting (Part 3).
- Dickens, Charles (1849) The Verdict for Drouet — the deadly cholera epidemic at Drouet's School, Tooting (Part 4).
- Dickens, Charles (1850) A Walk in a Workhouse — probably St Marylebone or St Pancras Workhouse, London.
- Dickens, Charles (1850) London Pauper Children — the Central London District School, at Norwood.
- Dickens, Charles (1861) The Uncommercial Traveller — Wapping Workhouse
- Dickens, Charles (1863) The Uncommercial Traveller — The Short-Timers — Stepney Union's children's establishment at Limehouse.
- Hastings, Rev. Frederick (1889) Workhouse Worries — an elderly inmate at an unidentified workhouse.
- Kohl, J.K. (1844) A German traveller visits the North Dublin workhouse
- Parkinson, Joseph Charles (1865) On Duty With the Inspector
- Pask, Arthur T. (1889) A Workhouse Farm — the Central London District School, at Hanwell.
- Rowntree, Joseph (1859-68) Reports of workhouse visits — reports by a campaigner for workhouse improvements.
- "S.L.B." (1866) Visit to a Pauper School. — unnamed but perhaps the North Surrey District School, at Anerley.
- Wills, WH & Taylor, Philip (1850) A Day in a Pauper Palace — Swinton Industrial Schools, Manchester.
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