The 1723 Workhouse Test Act gave parishes more powers to run these ‘houses of correction’, and in 1753 the overseers of the parishes of All Saints, St Clements and St Mary-in-the-Castle ...

The Georgians took matters a stage further with the Workhouse Test Act 1723 (unpaid work now on the menu) and the Relief of the Poor Act 1782, whose measures apparently didn’t cover those wives and ...

It kept strictly to the ‘workhouse test’, which compelled anyone seeking relief to enter the workhouse and live within its confines. In turn, this led to huge pressure on the workhouse ...

1769: "By your conveying Lydia Remick & her child to Dover." The workhouse strategy was punitive in character. Boston had constructed a workhouse during the late 1730s, which was first occupied in ...