It is 180 years since the Poor Law Amendment Act of 1834 was passed. But almost two centuries on, the Act’s incredibly harsh ideas have taken seed among a new generation on the government benches. The ...

brought in by the Poor Law Amendment Act (1834), had a completely different basis. The premise now was that the poor were responsible for themselves. There was a stern approach to people who ...

Over 600 of these Dickensian semi-prisons were built following the 1834 Poor Law Amendment Act which aimed to make life much harder for the able-bodied poor. Three workhouses were built in 1066 ...