Category:2013: Independent Living

Jack Harris, founder, with members. Jack was 40 years ahead of his time, telling members they could do what they liked and he would treat them like adults. Jack Harris, founder, with members. Jack was 40 years ahead of his…

G1 Closure of Long Stay Institutions Information Sheet The long stay hospitals had often taken over from workhouse hospitals and mental asylums. When the NHS was set up the Mental deficiency hospitals also became part of the long stay provision.…

F2 KS3 Activity Mental Deficiency Meanwood Park Ida Norman “ I was coming out of mill, Friday night, five o’clock we left, now I was excited cos I’d got my first wages you see. Then I was going down the…

F1 Information Sheet the Mental Deficiency Act and Eugenicist Thinking Eugenics is defined as ‘the science of improving a human population by controlled breeding to increase the occurrence of desirable heritable characteristics’ and was a false science largely based on…

E4 Numbers and the New Poor Law

E3 Activities KS4 & KS5 on the Poor Laws and disabled people using internet based resources. A. Elizabethan Poor Law Look at http://www.victorianweb.org/history/poorlaw/elizpl.html 1. What were the religious duties considered necessary in the feudal system, before the ending of the…

E2 Activity KS3 & KS4. Did the Treatment of Poor People Improve after 1834 Poor Law ? More than 6,000,000 people visited the Great Exhibition in 1851. But what about the people who did not come? Among those who did…

E1 Teachers Notes The Poor Laws and Disabled People. The history of the poor laws is conveniently divided into the Early Poor Law, Old Poor Law — crystallised in the 1601 Act for the Relief of the Poor, and the…