https://polaine.com/tags/victorian/ Recent content in victorian on Andy Polaine Hugo -- gohugo.io en-us Thu, 19 Aug 2010 18:07:58 +0000 https://polaine.com/2010/08/crowd-sourced-insights-into-the-victorian-workhouse/ Thu, 19 Aug 2010 18:07:58 +0000 https://polaine.com/2010/08/crowd-sourced-insights-into-the-victorian-workhouse/ The UK National Archives have just released the 19th Century Poor Law Union and Workhouse Records. The history of workhouses in the UK is a typically Victorian approach to social problems. From the archive introduction: The Poor Law Amendment Act was introduced in 1834, centralising the poor relief administrative system. Previously, poor relief had been largely the responsibility of the parish. Expenditure had risen during the Napoleonic Wars and local rate payers and authorities decided that looking after paupers was too costly.