The Operation Of The Poor Law In The North East Of Scotland 1745 1845
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The Scottish Poor Law
Author | : Jean Olivia Lindsay |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 1975 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : |
Based on a wide range of primary sources, including kirk session records, parliamentary papers, early newspapers, and first-hand accounts, Dr. Lindsay traces the legal development of the Scottish poor-relief system. She describes its practical operation in both urban and rural areas, giving special attention to the city of Aberdeen and the adjacent counties. She analyses the controversies and debates surrounding the English act of 1834 and Scottish Poor Law Amendment Act of 1845, including the arguments of the Glasgow minister Dr, Thomas Chalmers and the Ediburgh medical professor William Pulteney Alison.
The Workhouse Encyclopedia
Author | : Peter Higginbotham |
Publisher | : The History Press |
Total Pages | : 517 |
Release | : 2012-03-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0752477196 |
This fascinating, fully illustrated volume is the definitive guide to every aspect of the workhouse and of the poor relief system in which it played a pivotal part. Compiled by Peter Higginbotham, one of Britain's best-known experts on the subject, this A-Z cornucopia covers everything from the 1725 publication An Account of Several Work-houses to the South African Zulu admitted to Fulham Road Workhouse in 1880. With hundreds of fascinating anecdotes, plus priceless information for researchers including workhouse locations throughout the British Isles, useful websites and archive repository details, maps, plans, original workhouse publications and an extensive bibliography, it will delight family historians and general readers alike. Where was my local workhouse? What records did they keep? What is gruel and is it really what inmates lived on? How did you get out of a workhouse? What famous people were once workhouse inmates? Are there any workhouse buildings I can visit? If these are the kinds of questions you've ever wanted to know the answer to, then this is the book for you.
Poverty and Poor Law Reform in Nineteenth-Century Britain, 1834-1914
Author | : David Englander |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 194 |
Release | : 2013-12-02 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1317883217 |
The Poor Law Amendment Act of 1834 is one of the most important pieces of social legislation ever enacted. Its principles and the workhouse system dominated attitudes to welfare provision for the next 80 years. This new Seminar Study explores the changing ideas to poverty over this period and assesses current debates on Victorian attitudes to the poor. David Englander reviews the old system of poor relief; he considers how the New Poor Law was enacted and received and looks at how it worked in practice. The chapter on the Scottish experience will be particularly welcomed, as will Dr Englander's discussion of the place of the Poor Law within British history.
British Economic and Social History
Author | : R. C. Richardson |
Publisher | : Manchester University Press |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Great Britain |
ISBN | : 9780719036002 |
Police Courts in Nineteenth-Century Scotland, 2-volume set
Author | : David G. Barrie |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 831 |
Release | : 2022-07-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1000807703 |
Taking the form of two companion volumes, Police Courts in Nineteenth-Century Scotland represents the first major investigation into the administration, experience, impact and representation of summary justice in Scottish towns, c.1800 to 1892. Each volume explores diverse, but complementary, themes relating to judicial practices, relationships, experiences and discourses through the lens of the same subject matter: the police court. Volume 1, subtitled Magistrates, Media and the Masses, provides an institutional, social and cultural history of the establishment, development and practice of police courts. It explores their rise, purpose and internal workings, and how justice was administered and experienced by those who attended them in a variety of roles. Special attention is given to examining how courtroom discourse was represented in print culture, the role of the media in providing a discursive commentary on summary justice, and the ways in which magistrates and the police engaged in a law and order dialogue with the press. Throughout, consideration is given to uncovering the relationship between magistrates, the courts, the police and the wider community, and to charting the implications of the rise of summary justice and the ’police-man’ state for the urban masses (as evidenced through prosecution, conviction and punishment patterns). Volume 2, subtitled Boundaries, Behaviours and Bodies, examines, through themed case studies, how these civic and judicial institutions shaped conceptual, spatial, temporal and commercial boundaries by regulating every-day activities, pastimes and cultures. As with Volume 1, Boundaries, Behaviours and Bodies is attentive to the relationship between magistrates, the police, the media and the wider community, but here the main focus of analysis is on the role and impact of the police courts, through their practice, on cultural ideas, social behaviours and environments in the nineteenth-century city.