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Anatomy Act 1832

Body Snatching could make your body worth more dead than alive and the Anatomy Act was one way of starting toa ddress this dreadful and workhouse Regime fuelled fear by legislating to protect the corpses of the poor, this act lasts into the 20th Century so it was certainly significant well-beyond it’s original foundation,,,

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  1. Review of the Poor Law Act 1832 In 1832, Earl Grey, the Prime Minister, set up a review of the Poor Law Act of 1601. The result of the review was a report that came to the following conclusions: That, poverty was caused by lazy people, not by the social and economic conditions they found themselves in. That large families did better [...]…
  2. What is the point of history? materials to work with: Churchill quotation cited in (David Cannadine’s inaugural lecture as Director of the Institute of Historical Research, 1999) ” ‘History’, Churchill observed, ‘with its flickering lamp, stumbles along the trail of the past, trying to reconstruct its scenes, to revive its echoes, and kindle with pale gleams the passions of former days.’ [...]…
  3. Workhouse Schools By 1839 almost half of the population of workhouses were made up of children. Some of these children were orphaned but others entered with their parents and although families were split up upon entering the workhouse, if the child was under seven it would probably stay alongside it’s mother. When the Poor Law Amendment Act [...]…

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Anatomy Act 1832

Body Snatching could make your body worth more dead than alive and the Anatomy Act was one way of starting toa ddress this dreadful and workhouse Regime fuelled fear by legislating to protect the corpses of the poor, this act lasts into the 20th Century so it was certainly significant well-beyond it’s original foundation,,,

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  1. Review of the Poor Law Act 1832 In 1832, Earl Grey, the Prime Minister, set up a review of the Poor Law Act of 1601. The result of the review was a report that came to the following conclusions: That, poverty was caused by lazy people, not by the social and economic conditions they found themselves in. That large families did better [...]…
  2. What is the point of history? materials to work with: Churchill quotation cited in (David Cannadine’s inaugural lecture as Director of the Institute of Historical Research, 1999) ” ‘History’, Churchill observed, ‘with its flickering lamp, stumbles along the trail of the past, trying to reconstruct its scenes, to revive its echoes, and kindle with pale gleams the passions of former days.’ [...]…
  3. Workhouse Schools By 1839 almost half of the population of workhouses were made up of children. Some of these children were orphaned but others entered with their parents and although families were split up upon entering the workhouse, if the child was under seven it would probably stay alongside it’s mother. When the Poor Law Amendment Act [...]…

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The Workhouse System

The Workhouse System was a radical solution to a problem of immense scale in mid C19th Britain. Tory landowners and Whig economists for once voted together, anxious in the face of increasing revolt and disturbances to preserve their respective positions.

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  1. Britain Applies Poor Law Act to Ireland 1838 Poor Law 1834 is applied to Ireland…
  2. Workhouse Schools By 1839 almost half of the population of workhouses were made up of children. Some of these children were orphaned but others entered with their parents and although families were split up upon entering the workhouse, if the child was under seven it would probably stay alongside it’s mother. When the Poor Law Amendment Act [...]…
  3. ‘Lunatics’ and the Poor Law Act 1834 Asylums had been operating in Britain for hundreds of years, the first recorded was the Bethlem Royal Hospital established in the C15th and were run  as private charitable institutions. The whole business was a haphazard affair until the Madhouse Act of 1774 which established licensing and yearly inspections of asylums. Still little provision was made [...]…

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Bury The Dead. Christian Burials

Christian burial traditions tell us a lot about the communities in which they are acted out. These customs affected your ancestors final resting place. For example, were they buried to the north of the church and if they were what does that tell you ab…