Stories
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Transforming the decorative into dissent
Discover how embroidered messages by two ‘troublesome’ women in 19th-century asylums are mirrored in the therapeutic quilting work of writer Rachel May.
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Dirt, disease and the Inspector of Nuisances
In the days when ‘bad air’ was thought to spread disease, dozens of Inspectors of Nuisances ceaselessly struggled against the perils of dirt – both visible and invisible.
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Permission to recover
When it comes to illness, sometimes the end is just the beginning. Gavin Francis argues why being given permission to recover is so important.
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How slums make people sick
A newly gentrified corner of Bermondsey leaves little clue to its less salubrious history. But a few intrepid writers recorded the details of existence in one of London’s most squalid slums.
Catalogue
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Workhouses and pauperism and women's work in the administration of the poor law / by Louisa Twining.
Twining, Louisa, 1820-1912.Date: 1898- Books
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Work-Houses the best charity: a sermon preacht at the cathedral church of Worcester, February 2d 1702. By Thomas Cooke Master of Arts, and Rector of St. Nicholas, in the City of Worcester. Publisht at the request of the Mayor and Aldermen.
Cooke, Thomas, 1664 or 1665-Date: [1702?]- Books
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An account of the condition of the infirmaries of London workhouses / [Ernest Hart].
Hart, Ernest, 1835-1898Date: 1866- Books
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Metropolitan workhouses (infirmary wards). Copy of report of H. B. Farnall, esquire, Poor Law inspector, on the infirmary wards of the severall metropolitan workhouses, and their existing arrangements / (Mr. Childers).
Farnall, H. B.Date: 1866- Books
Parish workhouses of the Medway towns / Philip MacDougall.
MacDougall, Philip.Date: 1988