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Workhouse Children: Infant and Child Paupers Under the Worcestershire Poor Law, 1780–1871. Sutton Publishing. ISBN 978-0-7509-1429-1. Downing, J. (1725). An Account of Several Work-houses for Employing and Maintaining the Poor. Joseph Downing. OL 22843166M. Higginbotham, Peter (2007). Workhouses of the Midlands. The History Press.
Ragged schools were charitable organisations dedicated to the free education of destitute children in 19th-century Britain.The schools were developed in working-class districts and intended for society's most impoverished youngsters who, it was argued, were often excluded from Sunday School education because of their unkempt appearance and often challenging behaviour.
An 1876 illustration of children working in a British textile factory. When the Industrial Revolution began, manufacturers used children as a workforce. [1] Children often worked the same 12-hour shifts as adults, but they could work shifts as long as 14 hours. [2] [3] [4] By the 1820s, 50% of English workers were under the age of 20.
John carried with him simple food items like baked potatoes to attract children. [ 3 ] Many years after his death, John Pounds has become a local hero in his birthplace of Portsmouth, winning a "Man of the Millennium" award in 1999 from a local newspaper, ahead of nationally more famous local heroes including Admiral Lord Nelson and Charles ...
Marten, James, ed. Children and Youth during the Civil War Era (2012) excerpt and text search; Marten, James. Children and Youth in a New Nation (2009) Marten, James. Childhood and Child Welfare in the Progressive Era: A Brief History with Documents (2004), includes primary sources; Marten, James. The Children's Civil War (2000) excerpt and ...
Society and culture of the Victorian era refers to society and culture in the United Kingdom during the Victorian era--that is the 1837-1901 reign of Queen Victoria. The idea of "reform" was a motivating force, as seen in the political activity of religious groups and the newly formed labour unions.
There was no catastrophic epidemic or famine in England or Scotland in the nineteenth century—it was the first century in which a major epidemic did not occur throughout the whole country, and deaths per 1000 of population per year in England and Wales fell from 21.9 from 1848 to 1854 to 17 in 1901 (cf, for instance, 5.4 in 1971). [6]
Hunger and poor diet was a common aspect of life across the UK in the Victorian period, especially in the 1840s, but the mass starvation seen in the Great Famine in Ireland was unique. [87] [85] Levels of poverty fell significantly during the 19th century from as much as two thirds of the population in 1800 to less than a third by 1901. However ...