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August 1, 2024 | History

Victorian Facts

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Historic books about the Victorian Era

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  • Cover of: The housing of the poor in London: A lecture delivered at Essex Hall, Essex Street, Strand, W.C. November 18th, 1889. Revised

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  • Cover of: The  bitter cry of outcast London: An inquiry into the condition of the abject poor.

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  • Cover of: Labour and life of the people

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  • Cover of: Workhouse characters: and other sketches of the life of the poor

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  • Cover of: The workhouse nurse

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  • Cover of: Workhouses and women's work: reprinted from the Church of England Monthly Review : also, a paper on the condition of workhouses, read in the social economy department of the National Association for the Promotion of Social Science, at Birmingham, October, 1857.

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  • Cover of: Metropolitan workhouse infirmaries, &c: Copy of the report of Dr. Edward Smith, Poor Law inspector and medical officer to the Poor Law Board, on the Metropolitan Workhouse infirmaries and sick wards

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  • Cover of: The workhouse system, 1834-1929: the history of an English social institution

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  • Cover of: Metropolitan workhouses and their inmates

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  • Cover of: Workhouse: The People - The Places - The Life Behind Doors

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  • Cover of: The workhouse and its medical officer

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  • Cover of: Dietaries for the inmates of workhouses: Report ... of Dr. Edward Smith

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  • Cover of: Extracts from the Diary of a Workhouse Chaplain ...

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  • Cover of: An Account of several work-houses for employing and maintaining the poor: setting forth the rules by which they are governed, their great usefulness to the publick, and in particular to the parishes where they are erected. As also of several charity-schools for promoting work, and labour.

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  • Cover of: Workhouses and pauperism and women's work in the administration of the poor law

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  • Cover of: The sick in workhouses, who they are, and how they should be treated: a paper read at the meeting of the National Association for the Promotion of Social Science in Dublin, August, 1861

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  • Cover of: Inquiry into the treatment, condition and mortality of infant children in the workhouse of the North Dublin Union

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  • Cover of: Memoirs of Mr. James H. Wood late surgeon, &c. &c., to the dispensary and workhouse at Blackburn, Lancashire: who died December 30, 1814, aged 19 years : including his conversion and happy death, &c. &c

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  • Cover of: Further facts relating to the care of the poor, and the management of the workhouse, in the city of Norwich: being a sequel to a former publication

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  • Cover of: The life story of Will Crooks, M.P.: from workhouse to Westminster

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  • Cover of: Deaconesses for the Church of England ...: also a paper on the supervision and training of workhouse girls

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  • Cover of: Almshouse women

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  • Cover of: [Pauperism in Poplar]

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  • Cover of: Paupers in almshouses 1904.

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  • Cover of: The workhouse encyclopedia

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  • Cover of: Never had a home: a very commonplace history

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  • Cover of: "Something attempted, something done!"

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  • Cover of: The people of the abyss

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  • Cover of: The book of snobs

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  • Cover of: Map of Great Britain & Ireland, showing the Rail Roads: to illustrate Harpers Gazetteer

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  • Cover of: Great Britain: handbook for travellers

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  • Cover of: Shipwreck

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  • Cover of: Snap-dragons: a tale of Christmas eve, and Old Father Christmas, an old fashioned tale of the young days of a grumpy old godfather

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  • Cover of: Curiosities of London: Exhibiting the Most Rare and Remarkable Objects of ...

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  • Cover of: Sketches in London

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  • Cover of: London people: sketched from life

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  • Cover of: The Book of the household: or, Family dictionary of everything connected with housekeeping and domestic medicine : with the treatment of children, management of the sick room, the sanitary improvements of the dwelling, the duties of servants, and full information on all other subjects relating to personal and domestic comfort

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  • Cover of: The tourist in Europe: or, A concise summary of the various routes, objects of interest, &c in Great Britain, France, Switzerland, Italy, Germany, Belgium, and Holland; with hints on time, expenses, hotels, conveyances, passports, coins, &c; memoranda during a tour of eight months in Great Britain and on the continent, in 1836

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August 1, 2024 Edited by Bibliosophicus Updated list.
March 1, 2023 Edited by Bibliosophicus Updated list.
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February 19, 2022 Created by Bibliosophicus Created new list.