Gender in the Workhouse: Links

Old Bailey: This link provides primary sources from the courthouse that paupers of the time period would have attended. This database also helps with framing the court’s proceedings in a variety of ways, one of which relates how gender functioned in the proceedings.

http://www.oldbaileyonline.org/

http://www.oldbaileyonline.org/static/Gender.jsp

London Lives: A scholarly project aimed at collecting and organizing data about poor people living in London during the Industrial Revolution. There are many useful tags related to gender and the workhouse.

http://www.londonlives.org/index.jsp

Gressenhall Farm and Workhouse: This is the website of the museum that our class is partnering with.

http://www.museums.norfolk.gov.uk/Visit_Us/Gressenhall_Farm_and_Workhouse/Voices_from_the_Workhouse/index.htm

Workhouses: http://www.workhouses.org.uk/StJames/ This webpage has some great images that help us imagine the ways in which women take up space in the workhouse.