Pauper Prisons, Pauper Palaces
Pauper Prisons, Pauper Palaces

Author: Paul Carter

Publisher: Troubador Publishing Ltd

Published: 2017-12-13

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13: 1788033043

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This book is a product of the Pauper Prison, Pauper Palaces (Midlands) (PPPPM) project which has been managed over the last few years by the British Association for Local History. The archival work was undertaken by a group of around 100 local historians across the Midlands who were interested in examining the lives of poor people in the nineteenth century. The main source which the following accounts originate from is the huge poor law union correspondence series of records held at The National Archives (TNA) in Kew. The poor law union correspondence rivals, if not eclipses, the Victorian census as the domestic archival nineteenth century tour de force and provides some of the most detailed accounts of the lives of ordinary English and Welsh men, women and children.

Pauper Voices, Public Opinion and Workhouse Reform in Mid-Victorian England
Pauper Voices, Public Opinion and Workhouse Reform in Mid-Victorian England

Author: Peter Jones

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2020-08-08

Total Pages: 136

ISBN-13: 3030478394

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This book represents the first attempt to identify and describe a workhouse reform ‘movement’ in mid- to late-nineteenth-century England, beyond the obvious candidates of the Workhouse Visiting Society and the voices of popular critics such as Charles Dickens and Florence Nightingale. It is a subject on which the existing workhouse literature is largely silent, and this book therefore fills a considerable gap in our understanding of contemporary attitudes towards institutional welfare. Although many scholars have touched on the more obvious strands of workhouse criticism noted above, few have gone beyond these to explore the possibility that a concerted ‘movement’ existed that sought to place pressure on those with responsibility for workhouse administration, and to influence the trajectory of workhouse policy.

The Emergence of the Welfare State in Britain and Germany
The Emergence of the Welfare State in Britain and Germany

Author: Wolfgang Mommsen

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2018-07-20

Total Pages: 592

ISBN-13: 0429865678

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Originally published in 1981 The Emergence of the Welfare State in Britain and Germany 1850-1950 is an edited collection on the history and future prospects of the modern welfare state. It attempts to pave the way for an analysis of the problems of the welfare state and its historical origins, and the likely future that transcends the nation-state orientated historical accounts. This collection of essays seeks to promote an interdisciplinary approach to the problems of the welfare state in two industrial societies. So far historians and social scientists concerned with this field of research have tended to work in isolation from one another, without mutual exchange of knowledge and using different methods. This book attempts to give equal scope to both perspectives.

Routledge Library Editions: Welfare and the State
Routledge Library Editions: Welfare and the State

Author: Various

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2021-07-14

Total Pages: 6112

ISBN-13: 0429856822

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The volumes in this set, originally published between 1940 and 1994, draw together research by leading academics in the area of welfare and the state, and provide a rigorous examination of related key issues. The volume examines the concepts of welfare in relation to the state through the areas of policy making, social administration, class division and social inequality, social policy and privatization, whilst also exploring the general principles and practices of the welfare state in various countries. This set will be of particular interest to students of sociology, politics, economics, social work respectively.

Music and Moral Management in the Nineteenth-Century English Lunatic Asylum
Music and Moral Management in the Nineteenth-Century English Lunatic Asylum

Author: Rosemary Golding

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2021-09-01

Total Pages: 375

ISBN-13: 3030785254

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This book traces the role played by music within asylums, the participation of staff and patients in musical activity, and the links drawn between music, health, and wellbeing. In the first part of the book, the author draws on a wide range of sources to investigate the debates around moral management, entertainment, and music for patients, as well as the wider context of music and mental health. In the second part, a series of case studies bring to life the characters and contexts involved in asylum music, selected from a range of public and private institutions. From asylum bands to chapel choirs, smoking concerts to orchestras, the rich variety of musical activity presents new perspectives on music in everyday life. Aspects such as employment practices, musicians’ networks and the purchase and maintenance of musical instruments illuminate the ‘business’ of music as part of moral management. As a source of entertainment and occupation, a means of solace and self-control, and as a device for social gatherings and contact with the outside world, the place of music in the asylum offers valuable insight into its uses and meanings in nineteenth-century England.