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Preferred term

Workhouses  

Definition(s)

  • e:Places of confinement and correction, established 16th c., using hard labor and strict discipline as reformative measures for lesser offenders, vagrants, and disabled or elderly poor [AAT] | f:Etablissement public dans lequel les pauvres sont nourris et logis [Robert]

Broader concept(s)

Synonym(s)

  • Bettering houses
  • Bridewells
  • Correctional institutions, workhouses
  • Houses of correction, workhouses
  • Poor farms, workhouses
  • Poorhouses, workhouses
  • Prisons, workhouses

Notation

  • 118733

In other languages

  • French

  • Dépôt de mendicité
  • Hospice des pauvres, workhouse

URI

http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/JLC-VMQFXTKG-F

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