In this fifth annual series of seminars on the lives of those experiencing or threatened with Old and New Poor Law workhouses, convened jointly by Nottingham Trent University and The National Archives, we deal with the (potentially) interrelated themes of violence, sex, and abuse. These issues have long exercised historians of institutional care, containment, and incarceration more generally. In this comprehensive programme of seminars, stretching from the 1750s to the 1930s, we have a core of papers that deal with violence against children but also contributions dealing with sexual abuse, weaponry (look out for the use of stinging nettles), immigration, and the agency of paupers meting out violence on the staff and fabric of institutions.
Seminars are online on the first Tuesday of each month, beginning in November 2024. They start at 5 pm and with questions from the audience might go on until 6.15 pm.
How to register
Register for free through the NTU Events page: https://www.ntu.ac.uk/about-us/events/events/2025/7/workhouse-lives-v-social-control-through-fear-and-violence-children-and-the-new-poor-law-workhouse,-dr-carol-beardmore,-the-open-university
Registration closes at 12pm the day before the talk.
If there are any issues, please contact aahresearchevents@ntu.ac.uk
