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1
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What rule made the workhouse worse than the streets?

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Less eligibility rule

2
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What year was the Andover workhouse scandal?

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1845

3
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What happened at Andover?

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Eating of bone marrow
Bone crushing work
Reported to the times increased public interest

4
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What year was the Huddersfield workhouse scandal?

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1848

5
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What happened at Huddersfield?

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Lice ridden
Children forced to sleep in the morgue as a punishment
Sharing beds with dead bodies

6
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What changes in Victorian society increased objection to the workhouse?

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Growth in Christian ethos/ philanthropy

7
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What was the significance of the publication of Oliver Twist in 1837?

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Serialised - so widely read

Depicted the horrors of the workhouse

8
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When was Self Help published

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1859

9
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What did Edward Smith carry out in 1863?

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The National Food Survey

This calculated the required diet and demonstrated the ineffective nature of the workhouse

10
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What were the provisions of the Poor Law Amendment Act?

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  • Poor Law Commission set up
  • grouped 15,000 parishes into 600 unions
  • discouraged outdoor relief
11
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How many workhouses had been built by 1839?

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350

12
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How much did the Banbury workhouse cost to build in 1835?

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£6,200

13
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What were conditions like in Workhouses?

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  • diet of cheese, bread, water and gruel
  • 10 hour day
  • families separated
  • inmates dehumanised
14
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what was the cost of an inmate in a workhouse compared to outdoor relief?

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4s8d vs 2s3d

estimated between 50 - 100% more expensive to maintain paupers in a workhouse compared to outdoor relief

15
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What did the PLC allow in Lancashire and Yorkshire in 1838?

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continuation of outdoor relief when necessary

16
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Why was the PLAA criticised?

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felt that it was ideologically prejudice rather than practical

17
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Why did the Tories oppose the PLAA?

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paternalistic ideals

18
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Describe the riots of 1835 (East Anglia)

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against PLAA
Riot Act was read - 4 arrested
unorganised
divided regional aims

19
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What in 1837 forced the Government to allow Outdoor Relief to be reestablished?

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a trade depression caused unemployment en masse

20
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What was concluded from the investigations at Andover?

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Mcdougal was abusing female inmates, rumours were true

21
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What was the impact of Andover?

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Poor Law Commission was dissolved and The Poor Law Board was set up

22
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Outdoor Relief Regulation Order

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1852 - further restrictions on outdoor relief to sick and infirm

23
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Role of Women in Poor Relief

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  • women took on philanthropic movements due to their ‘maternal’ instincts
24
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Angela Burdett Couts

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Philanthropist - set up Urania Cottage in 1847 as a home for impoverished women who had fallen into prostitution
funded education of pauper children

25
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Workhouse Visiting Society

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Founded by Louisa Twining in 1858 - used empirical methods, visited inmates

26
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Metropolitan Poor Act

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1867 - In 1865 The Lancet Medical Journal investigated treatment of the poor, the 1867 act ensured separate infirmaries for the inmates

27
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Charity Organisation Society

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1869 - established ‘deserving’ and ‘undeserving’ poor, had a methodical approach and advocated ‘helping the poor to help themselves’

28
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Thomas Carlyle

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published ‘Past and Present’ in 1843 - highlighted the growing divides between rich and poor in society

29
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Henry Mayhew

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‘London Labour and London Poor’ published in a series in The Morning Chronicle over the 1840s
His empirical research concluded that poverty was a result of insufficient wages that prevented workers from being able to put provisions aside in anticipation of economic depravity

30
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Elizabeth Gaskell

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‘Mary Barton’ 1848 - depicted harsh living conditions in Manchester - fictional genre meant it was not considered a threat to social order

31
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Samuel Smiles

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Self Help - 1859 - sold 250,000 copies, brought to light peoples individual potential