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Pauper Palaces

Pauper Palaces

Digby, Anne

Hardcover

Series: Routledge Revivals

General LawGeneral World History

PREORDER - Expected ship date October 1, 2026

ISBN10: 1041399472
ISBN13: 9781041399476
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Oct 1 2026
Pages: 278
Language: English

Based on a wide range of sources, Pauper Palaces (first published in 1978) is a stimulating analysis of the impact of the Poor Law in Norfolk which indicates the significance which workhouses--the 'pauper palaces' of the title--had in this locality. The study takes a pioneering approach in using a contextual analysis to reveal the economic, social, and political pressures which shaped the system of poor relief. In rejecting a standard administrative approach to nineteenth century poor law history, a fresh perspective on the Poor Law Amendment Act of 1834 is provided. The author believes that this can no longer be regarded as a major watershed which divided two epochs of social policy since the continuity of practice between the old and new Poor Law is shown to have been substantial at the local level. The 1834 Act retained a precarious local system of financing poor relief which undermined national attempts at poor law reform. The book shows that, in spite of the theoretically centralised administration of the new Poor Law, areas like Norfolk retained substantial autonomy in practice.

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