Examining the Resilience and Life Chances of Workhouse Children 1850-1914

这个项目将第一次检查和比较十九世纪英国济贫院儿童的机构间遭遇和生活机会。约克郡被选为一个案例研究，因为它让我能够衡量其工业区、城区以及较小的农业和农村地区对济贫院儿童的反应。此外，一系列独特的制度来源的存在使这项研究成为可能。诺瑟勒顿和布拉德福德联合济贫院的丰富记录从1837年开始保存下来。由于这些原因，这一领域的研究将大大促进我们对机构干预对儿童生活的长期影响的理解，并揭示济贫院儿童在机构后经历的以前不为人知的方面。

This project will be the first to examine and compare the inter-institutional encounters and life chances of workhouse children in nineteenth-century England. Yorkshire has been chosen as a case study as it allows me to measure responses to workhouse children in its industrial, urban districts as well as its smaller, agricultural, rural areas. Moreover, the survival of a unique range of institutional sources make the study possible. A rich lode of records from the Northallerton and Bradford Union Workhouses survive from 1837. For these reasons, research in this area will considerably advance our understanding of the long-term effects of institutional intervention in children's lives and reveal previously unknown aspects of the workhouse child's post-institutional experience.