Petty Tyranny and Oppression

Petty Tyranny and OppressionThis book focuses on one of the most contentious areas of English and Welsh poor law history: the exercise of petty tyranny by officials on the workhouse poor. The book examines the period from the late eighteenth century crisis of the Old Poor Law, through the adoption of the New Poor Law reform in 1834, the loosening of the principles of 1834 in the 1890s, and on past the early twentieth century Liberal reforms, to the eve of World War I. This long

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the contributors to this volume offer up an illuminating collective meditation on the idea of ethos and its relevance for historical practice

appear here in English for the first time

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school discipline and classroom management are acute problems in contemporary schools

Using period photography

Originally published in 1984

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