The Birmingham Parish Workhouse, 1730-1840

by Chris Upton

Very little is known of the first workhouse in Birmingham. Even the assumed date of its building, given as 1733 by William Hutton, is wrong. This book is the first attempt to write a history of the workhouse and the ancillary welfare provision for Birmingham, frequently referred to as the 'Old Poor Law.' This study of welfare in Birmingham in the century before the Poor Law Amendment Act reveals some surprising facts which fly in the face of the scholarly...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 191226014X
• ISBN13: 9781912260140
• Release Date: August 2019
• Publisher: University of Hertfordshire Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.1"