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• The Book of the Bastiles: or, The History of the Working of the New Poor Law (London: J. Stephens, 1841), by G. R. Wythen Baxter
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• An inquiry into the workhouse system and the law of maintenance in agricultural districts. (For J. Hatchard and Son, London, 1820), by C. D. Brereton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Some account of the Shrewsbury House of Industry, its establishment and regulations : with hints to those who may have similar institutions in view (Printed by J. and W. Eddowes, 1795), by Isaac Wood and John Howlett (page images at HathiTrust)
• An Account of several work-houses for employing and maintaining the poor; setting forth the rules by which they are governed, their great usefulness to the publick, and in particular to the parishes where they are erected. As also of several charity-schools for promoting work, and labour. (J. Downing, 1725) (page images at HathiTrust)
• An account of several work-houses for employing and maintaining the poor : setting forth rules by which theu are governed, their great usefulness to the publick, and in particular to the parishes where they are erected, as also of several charity schools for promoting work, and labor. (J. Downing, 1732) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Della carità ospitaliera in Toscana : studi documentati e proposte col confronto dei sistemi altrove in uso e specialmente nelle altre provincie d'Italia, nella Francia e nella inghilterra. (F. Bencini, 1864), by Ottavio Andreucci (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Recollections of workhouse visiting and management during twenty-five years (C.K. Paul, 1880), by Louisa Twining (page images at HathiTrust)
• Workhouses and pauperism and women's work in the administration of the poor law. (Methuen & co., 1898), by Louisa Twining (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bread for the poor, or, Observations upon certain proposals lately offered to the Kings Majesty and both Houses of Parliament with some additional considerations tending to inriching of the nation ... : whereby all poor people, women and children from five years old may be comfortably employ'd to get their own livings, beggars and vagrants restrain'd, the parish charges for the poor lightned, and consequently your lands improved, rents raised ... and tradesmen encouraged, and many hundred thousand pounds a year kept at home which now goes out of the kingdom to French and other forraign commodities / by Philo-Anglicus. (London : Printed for D.M., 1678), by Philo-Anglicus (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• The prevention of poverty, by beneficial clubs : with preliminary observations upon houses of industry, and the poor laws (Printed for Longman, Paternoster-Row, and Broster, Chester, 1796), by Edward Jones (page images at HathiTrust)
• Proposals for Building, in Every County, a Working-Alms-House or Hospital: as the Best Expedient to Perfect the Trade and Manufactory of Linnen Cloth, by Richard Haines (Gutenberg ebook)

• England's weal & prosperity proposed: or, Reasons for erecting publick vvork-houses in every county, for the speedy promoting of industry and the woollen manufactory, shewing how the wealth of the nation may be encreased, many hundred thousand pounds per annum. And also that many thousand persons may be so reformed, to their own and the whole kingdoms present and future wealth and glory, that there may no more be a begger bred up in the nation. Humbly offered to the consideration of the great wisdom of the nation, and presented to the honourable House of Commons. By R. Haines. To which is added A model of government for such works houses prepared by the same author, and printed in the year (79) intended to have been presented to the last Parliament. Pursuant to a breviate of proposals for the promoting of industry, and speedy restoring the woollen manufactory, by him formerly published. ([London : s.n., 1680]), by Richard Haines (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A model of government for the good of the poor, and the wealth of the nation with such a method and inspection that frauds, corruption in officers, abuses to the poor, ill administration of materials, &c. therein may be prevented : the stock rais'd and preserved, all poor people and their children for ever comfortably provided for, all idle hands employed, all oppressed parishes eased, all beggars and vagrants for the future restrained, poor prisoners for debt relieved and malefactors reclaimed, to their own comfort, God's glory and the kingdoms wealth and honour : humbly offered to the consideration of the great wisdom of the nation, viz. His Most Excellent Majesty and both houses of Parliament / by R. Haines ... (London : Printed for D.M., 1678), by Richard Haines (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Ordinances made by Sir William Cecill Knight of the Order of the Garter, Baron of Burghley, for the order and gouernement of xiij. poore men, whereof one to be the warden of the hospitall at Stanford Baron in the countie of Northampton, to remaine in a chest in a chamber in the sayd hospitall, locked vp in a chest with two seuerall locks, the keyes whereof to be in the custodie of the Vicar of S. Martins and the bailiffe of the manour. xx. Augusti Anno xxxix. Elizabethae Reginæ, & anno domini 1597. ([London : Deputies of C. Barker, 1597]), by William Cecil Burghley (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A method of government for such publick working alms-houses as may be erected in every county for bringing all idle hands to industry As the best known expedient for restoring and advancing the woollen manufacture. Humbly offered to the Kings most Excellent Majesty and both Houses of Parliament. By R. Haines with allowance. (London : printed for Langley Curtis on Ludgate-hill, 1679), by Richard Haines (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• An act for the continuance and maintenance of the school and alms-houses of Westminster. (Printed by John Field for Edward Husband ..., 1649), by England and Wales, Edward Husband, John Field, and Henry Scobell (page images at HathiTrust)

• The training of pauper children. (Printed by Clowes, 1839), by Great Britain Poor Law Commissioners, James Kay-Shuttleworth, and William Clowes and Sons (page images at HathiTrust)

• Management and construction of poorhouses and almshouses : containing model plans of a poorhouse and of almshouses designed by Ninian Macwhannell, F.R.I.B.A., I.A., Glasgow, and specimen plans of existing poorhouse buildings by different architects (W. Green, 1908), by George A. Mackay and Ninian Macwhannell (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Master and matron of the workhouse (Knight & Co., 1869), by W. G. Lumley (page images at HathiTrust)

• Old English houses of alms : a pictorial record with architectural and historical notes (F. Griffiths, 1910), by Sidney Heath (page images at HathiTrust)
• A history of the Printing trade charities (W.H. Allen & Co., 1883), by James Shirley Hodson, Spottiswoode & Co, and W.H. Allen & Co (page images at HathiTrust)
• Proposals for building, in every county, a working-almshouse or hospital as the best expedient to perfect the trade and manufactory of linnen-cloth (London : Printed by W.G. for R. Harford ..., 1677), by Richard Haines (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• England's weal & prosperity proposed, or, Reasons for erecting publick vvork-houses in every county for the speedy promoting of industry and the woollen manufactory, shewing how the wealth of the nation may be encreased, many hundred thousand pounds per annum, and also that many thousand persons may be so reformed, to their own and the whole kingdoms present and future wealth and glory, that there may no more be a beggar bred up in the nation : humbly offered to the consideration of the great wisdom of the nation, and presented to the Honourable House of Commons / by R. Haines ; to which is added a model of government for such works houses prepared by the same author, and printed in the year (79) ; intended to have been presented to the last Parliament, pursuant to a breviate of proposals for the promoting of industry, and speedy restoring the woollen manufactory, by him formerly published. (London : Printed for Langley Curtis ..., 1681), by Richard Haines (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Public General Acts. 1695-1696 7 & 8 Gul.III.c.32 (London : printed by Charles Bill, and the executrix of Thomas Newcomb deceas'd, printers to the Kings most excellent Majesty, MDCXCVI. [1696]), by England and Wales (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Orders and rules appointed by the last will and testament of Sir Thomas Holt, knight and baronet to be observed in the electing, and after the election, of the ten poore persons inhabiting in his almshouse at Aston Juxta Birmingham in the county of Warwick, with the assent and assistance of Dame Anne Holt, the relict of the said Sir Thomas Holt, and of Sir Robert Holt baronet, his grand-son, and his heires males. (London : [s.n.], Printed in the Year, 1656), by Thomas Holt, Robert Holt, and Anne Holt (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• An account of a new poor-house, erected in the parish of Boldre, in New Forest, near Lymington. (Philadelphia : Printed by Thomas Dobson, at the stone-house, no. 41, South Second-Street, --1797), by William Gilpin (HTML at Evans TCP)

• Below the surface : a story of English country life. (Smith, Elder, 1857), by Arthur Hallam Elton (page images at HathiTrust)

• Quicksilver: or, The Boy With No Skid to His Wheel, by George Manville Fenn, illust. by Frank Dadd (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Under the Old Roof, by Hesba Stretton (HTML at Wayback Machine)
• The convict's child : or, the helmet of hope., by A. L. O. E. (Gutenberg ebook)

• Hospitals and almshouses of London. (London General Omnibus, 1920), by Charles White (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Memorials of the Hospital of St. Cross and Alms House of Noble Poverty (Winchester [England] : William Savage, photographic publisher, High Street ; London : Messrs. Parker & Co., 377, Strand, MDCCCLXVIII [1868], 1868), by L. M. Humbert and William Savage (page images at HathiTrust)

• An ordinance for the continuance and maintenance of the alms-houses & alms-men called Poor Knights, and other charitable and pious uses, whereof the late dean and canons of Windsor were feoffees in trust (London : Printed by Henry Hills and John Field ..., 1655), by England and Wales. Lord Protector (1653-1658 : O. Cromwell) and Oliver Cromwell (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• An ordinance for the continuance and maintenance of the alms-houses & alms-men called Poor Knights,: and other charitable and pious uses, whereof the late dean and canons of Windsor were feoffees in trust. (London : printed by Henry Hills and John Field, printers to His Highness, 1655), by England and Wales. Lord Protector (1653-1658 : O. Cromwell) and England and Wales. Council of State (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Management and construction of poorhouses and almshouses : containing model plans of a poorhouse and of almshouses designed by Ninian Macwhannell, F.R.I.B.A., I.A., Glasgow, and specimen plans of existing poorhouse buildings by different architects (W. Green, 1908), by George A. Mackay and Ninian Macwhannell (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Management and construction of poorhouses and almshouses : containing model plans of a poorhouse and of almshouses designed by Ninian Macwhannell, F.R.I.B.A., I.A., Glasgow, and specimen plans of existing poorhouse buildings by different architects (W. Green, 1908), by George A. Mackay and Ninian Macwhannell (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Report of the Departmental committee appointed by the local government board for Scotland to inquire in the system of Poor Law medical relief and into the rules and regulations for the management of poorhouses : together with supplement (Printed for H.M. Stationery Off. by Neill & Co., 1904), by Scotland. Departmental Committee on Poor Law Medical Relief (page images at HathiTrust)

• Knight's guide to the poor law institutions orders, being an annotation of the poor law institutions (nursing) order, 1913, issued by the local government board on the 30th December, 1913 (Knight & Co., 1914), by William George Gillings (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

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• Care of aged persons in the United States ... October, 1929. (U. S. Govt. print. off., 1929), by Florence Evelyn Parker, Mary Katharine Conyngton, and Estelle M. Stewart (page images at HathiTrust)
• The almshouse, construction and management (Charities Publication Committee, 1911), by Alexander Johnson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Paupers in almshouses 1910. (Govt. print. off., 1915), by United States Bureau of the Census, E. A. Goldenweiser, Lewis Meriam, and Joseph A. Hill (page images at HathiTrust)
• The gallows : the prison, and the poor-house. (G. W. Quinby, 1856), by G. W. Quinby (page images at HathiTrust)
• Paupers in almshouses 1904. (G.P.O., 1906), by United States Bureau of the Census, William Alexander King, and John Koren (page images at HathiTrust)
• Old English houses of alms : a pictorial record with architectural and historical notes (F. Griffiths, 1910), by Sidney Heath (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hospitals and almshouses of London. (London General Omnibus, 1920), by Charles White (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Annual report of the Governors of the Alms House, New York, for the year ... (New York : Governors of the Alms House, 1849), by Almshouse of the City of New York (page images at HathiTrust)
• The gallows, the prison, and the poor-house : a plea for humanity, showing the demands of Christianity in behalf of the criminal and perishing classes (G.W. Quinby, 1860), by G. W. Quinby (page images at HathiTrust)
• Charitable and parochial establishments (B.T. Batsford, 1881), by Henry Saxon Snell (page images at HathiTrust)
• The almshouse ... (n.p., 1900), by Mary Vida Clark (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• De gli hospitali che furno fabricati in Milano (Per Gratiadio Ferioli, ad instanza di Antonio de gli Antonij, 1599), by Paolo Morigia, Giovanni Antonio de' Antoni, and Graziadio Ferioli (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memorials of the Hospital of St. Cross and Alms House of Noble Poverty (Winchester [England] : William Savage, photographic publisher, High Street ; London : Messrs. Parker & Co., 377, Strand, MDCCCLXVIII [1868], 1868), by L. M. Humbert and William Savage (page images at HathiTrust)
• De l'assistance en province, spécialement de la menicité & des depots de menicité : reponse au questionnaire officiel. (Paris, 1874), by Frédéric Jean Jacques Peau-Saint-Martin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Report of the Superintendent of Almshouse 1904 ([s.n.], 1904), by N.Y.) Albany County Almshouse (Albany County (page images at HathiTrust)

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