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thumb|right|300px|Former workhouse in Nantwich in [[Cheshire, dating from 1780]] In Britain and Ireland, a workhouse (, lit. "poor-house") was a total institution where those unable to support themselves financially were offered accommodation and employment. In Scotland, they were usually known as poorhouses. The earliest known use of the term workhouse is from 1631, in an account by the mayor of Abingdon reporting that "we have erected within our borough a workhouse to set poorer people to work".
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It sits within the topics Poverty in the United Kingdom and Workhouses.
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Research
308 papers- Workhouse or asylum? Accommodating pauper lunatics in nineteenth-century England.Medical history · 2023
- Workhouse Waste.The Hospital · 1920
- Workhouse Diets.The Hospital · 1900
- Workhouse Infirmaries.The Hospital · 1898
- Workhouse Nursing.British medical journal · 1902
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- residential building
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- Workhouses
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