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Historians conventionally focus on urbanisation and industrialisation as the driving force behind early-nineteenth-century changes in poor relief in general and the Scottish Poor Law Amendment Act of 1845 in particular.
Poor relief and the dangerous and criminal insane in Scotland, c. 1740-1840
The beginnings of the welfare state at the turn of the century signalled the end of the workhouses and the Poor Law itself was finally abolished in 1929.
Grim facts of life in the workhouses; Existences of poor Victorians revealed in online documents
The Irish poor law can be seen as a classic example of colonial modernity.
Wild workhouse girls and the liberal imperial state in mid-nineteenth century Ireland
While England remained an agricultural country the old Poor Law remained relatively efficient; it was local, small-scale and cost-effective.
Archive: Ancient system of support at the heart of a nation; The Poor Law was the forerunner of the NHS. Chris Upton discovers how it dealt with its patients
Lindert's point of departure is the Old Poor Law and the arguments which raged from the 1780s until 1834 surrounding poor relief.
Review essay: reform and social change
There were 650 Poor Law Unions throughout the country and they varied considerably.
A grim glimpse at life inside the workhouse
LAHORE, June 27, 2011 (Frontier Star): The AJK Election Commissioner has postponed the LA-37 (Valley 2) polls for one of the two Lahore seats of the Legislative Assembly due to poor law and order situation while elections in the LA-30 (Jammu) have already been postponed.
LA-37 polls postponed
Tudor England suffered high unemployment and high prices which meant increasing numbers of poor, and this led to the passing of the 1601 Poor Law.
Village life - Birkby
However, perhaps as many as 300,000 Irishmen and-women (overwhelmingly Catholics and comprising between 5% and 10% of the total migration) had their fares to North America paid by Irish landlords, by the British treasury, by the Irish poor law unions, or by private philanthropists.
Sending Out Ireland's Poor: Assisted Emigration to North America in the Nineteenth Century
Heroine Fizz, who happens to be blonde and shapely, is a poor law student who will do almost anything for cash to top up her grant.
Books; Not quite the right vibe
While the country is already facing crucial shortages of energy, dwindling foreign investment and political uncertainty, the addition of poor law and order to the list is the cause of further trouble to the beleaguered business community.
Poor law and order situation prevailing in Karachi: FPCCI
QUETTA, June 21, 2011 (Frontier Star): Chairman of Pakistan Muslim League PML-Z Mir Zirik Zehri has said that the government has failed to control inflation and poor law and order conditions.
Government has failed to control inflation and poor law and order conditions, says Zehri

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