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Workhouse Lives VI: All Events

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Workhouse Lives VII: 'The Ballad of Bethnal Green: women’s voices, workhouse dynasties and whistleblowing in the 1860s’, Dr Peter Jones, Nottingham Trent University.

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Workhouse Lives VII: ‘The Irish Question? Administering the Anatomy Act in St Giles Workhouse, c.1832–1850’, Dr Julie Ann Mathias, Queen's University Belfast.

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Workhouse Lives VII: ‘The Family's Voice: Advocating for the Disabled and Infirm Poor’, Dr Carol Beardmore, The Open University.

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Workhouse Lives VII: ‘Kinship, friendship and neighbourliness: the poor within and without the Victorian workhouse’, Dr Paul Carter, The National Archives.

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Workhouse Lives VII: ‘Peopling Pauper Stories: Workhouse Protest and Poor Law Resilience’, Professor Elizabeth Hurren, University of Leicester.

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Workhouse Lives VII: ‘The Visiting Hour: Family Visitation, Regulation and Less Eligibility in the Victorian Workhouse’, Dr Lewis Darwen, The National Archives.

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Workhouse Lives VII: ‘Pauper Palaces or Pauper Bastilles? Material Life in Workhouses of the Old Poor Law, c. 1690-1834’, Dr Joe Harley, Anglia Ruskin University.

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Workhouse Lives VII: ‘In the Poor House Vicinity: Inspector J.S. Brown, his family, and the Paisley Poor House’, Professor Wendy Gordon, State University of New York (SUNY) Plattsburgh.

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Workhouse Lives VII: 'Keeping it in the Family: Familial Networks between Poor Law Union Staff’, Dr Matthew Bayly, University of Lincoln.

ntu.ac.uk/about-us/events/events/2027/7/workhouse-lives-vii-keeping-it-in-the-family-familial-networks-between-poor-law-union-staff,-dr-matthew-bayly,-university-of-lincoln