Workhouse Lives VI: ‘The pre-1834 workhouse revisited’, Susannah Ottaway (Carleton College in Northfield, MN, USA), Alannah Tomkins (Keele University), and Samantha Williams (University of Cambridge)
Nottingham Trent University, in partnership with the AHRC project ‘In Their Own Write’, The National Archives and the Workhouse Network invite you to participate in an online seminar series: ‘Workhouse Lives’.
Type of event: Conferences | Networking | Public lectures | Seminars | Workshops
When: Tuesday 7 July 2026, 5 pm
Booking deadline: Monday 6 July 2026, 12.00 pm
Event details
In the sixth online series of workhouse lives seminars we focus on the operation and experience of workhouses under both the Old and New Poor Laws, and in England, Wales, and Ireland. Our speakers range across themes including pauper burial sites, the emigration of pauper children, workhouse poetry, pauper bodies, female poor law guardians in Wales, disabled inmates, and the poor law inspectorate. The series also hosts two papers outlining book length projects on the nature of workhouse life under the Old and New Poor Laws respectively. Seminars take place via Teams at 1700 on the dates indicated. Papers generally last 45 minutes with time for questions thereafter. Please do sign up for some or all of the seminars, and a Teams link will be sent to you on the day before the paper is due to take place.
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Registration
You must register separately for each session you are interested in. The link to join the event will be sent to your email the day before the event. If you have any problems with the link please contact steven.king@ntu.ac.uk
Programme
All events start at 5 pm and are expected to be around 40 - 45 minute, followed by questions.