Add to ORKGAdopting a multidisciplinary approach, this work presents an integration of osteological and historical evidence to examine the detrimental impact of the workhouse on inmates in nineteenth-century London and to assess whether the 1834 change to the English Poor Laws led to deterioration in health. Due to the new legalities of the New Poor Laws, reformers sought to create a nationalised system of welfare, which culminated in the establishment of the Union workhouse. All aspects of daily life were influenced within the institution, in an attempt to instil the 'virtues of the independent labourer'. It is hypothesised that the effects of the New Poor law would have exposed inmates to episodes of dietary deficiencies and infectious disease, dete...
Post-Medieval London (sixteenth-nineteenth centuries) was a stressful environment for the poor. Over...
This thesis explores the skeletal health and socio-economic status across Exeter’s medieval populati...
The deaths of ordinary poor people are, in both the popular imagination and much of the historiograp...
The Bristol Royal Infirmary burial ground was in use between 1757 and 1854 and the skeletal assembla...
This research examines morbidity and mortality in three burial samples from the greater London area ...
As a reaction to widespread poverty, a system of coercive welfare developed in Switzerland during th...
This thesis employs a paleopathological approach to examine the impacts of\ud urban versus rural liv...
This article is the first to use a combination of three different types of inventories from Dorset t...
noRecent research by Andrew Reynolds has interrogated the archaeological record for evidence of A...
Throughout the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries workhouses were a key provider of medical care to...
As a reaction to widespread poverty, a system of coercive welfare developed in Switzerland during th...
This study explores the potential of macroscopic osteoarchaeological techniques to reveal the presen...
This study compares the morbidity and mortality of non-adults interred in urban and rural cemeteries...
Cross Bones graveyard, an unconsecrated burial site in Southwark, London, was rediscovered in 1989 w...
Famine can broadly be defined as a shortage of accessible foodstuffs that instigates widespread exce...
Post-Medieval London (sixteenth-nineteenth centuries) was a stressful environment for the poor. Over...
This thesis explores the skeletal health and socio-economic status across Exeter’s medieval populati...
The deaths of ordinary poor people are, in both the popular imagination and much of the historiograp...
The Bristol Royal Infirmary burial ground was in use between 1757 and 1854 and the skeletal assembla...
This research examines morbidity and mortality in three burial samples from the greater London area ...
As a reaction to widespread poverty, a system of coercive welfare developed in Switzerland during th...
This thesis employs a paleopathological approach to examine the impacts of\ud urban versus rural liv...
This article is the first to use a combination of three different types of inventories from Dorset t...
noRecent research by Andrew Reynolds has interrogated the archaeological record for evidence of A...
Throughout the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries workhouses were a key provider of medical care to...
As a reaction to widespread poverty, a system of coercive welfare developed in Switzerland during th...
This study explores the potential of macroscopic osteoarchaeological techniques to reveal the presen...
This study compares the morbidity and mortality of non-adults interred in urban and rural cemeteries...
Cross Bones graveyard, an unconsecrated burial site in Southwark, London, was rediscovered in 1989 w...
Famine can broadly be defined as a shortage of accessible foodstuffs that instigates widespread exce...
Post-Medieval London (sixteenth-nineteenth centuries) was a stressful environment for the poor. Over...
This thesis explores the skeletal health and socio-economic status across Exeter’s medieval populati...
The deaths of ordinary poor people are, in both the popular imagination and much of the historiograp...