Mr Tomlinson’s Group (10H): Coursework 2, Question 1
Following yesterday’s lesson, please submit your homework (Coursework 2, Question 1) on the blog.
1 Study Source A.
What can you learn from Source A about the workhouse at Andover? (5 marks)
Homework should be handed in by WEDNESDAY 25 MARCH (our next lesson)
There should be no excuses and a subject detention will follow if you fail to submit this work unless you have spoken to me about internet access.
Use this website to do some research as it will help you with the rest of coursework 2. www.workhouses.org
Some of you have already handed this work to me, well done!
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The building looks like a prison I can see this because there are high walls around the whole building so the inmates can’t escape. It was built on a hill just outside a town so that the poor and the town people could see it and see how horrible it is and make them not want to go there. The source shows that male and females were split up. I can see this because they had a female quarter and male quarter. The master’s quarters are in the middle of the building this is so they can see everything and so male and female can’t see each other. I can see that there is a dead house. I think this is they store the dead people and it suggest people died a lot. I can see there is a bone house I think this is where the inmates break bones or maybe where they stored the bones before the inmates crushed them.
Tanya Wright
Really good Tanya. Well done. Maybe develop a couple of the points? Is it a significant point that the building is built to look like a prison? Also why would the males and females be split up do you think? Your point about the bone house is good!
From source A a you can learn that workhouses in 1842 were like prison you can learn this because its all in closed and you are unable to get out. You can also learn that workhouses Seaperate the males and females this is because of the key on the left hand side of the photo.
Sophie, two good points. Can you develop them further and make several more observations to pick up further marks?
From source A, you can learn that workhouses in 1842 were like prison you can learn this because it’s all closed with big walls around the workhouse and the inmates are unable to get out. You can also learn that workhouses separate the males and females why might they be seperated?this is because of the key on the left hand side of the photo and because of the masters quarters are in the middle of the building and the male and the female quarters are both sides of it. Make a comment about the Master’s Quarters. Why was it in the middle? also form source a you can learn that the workhouse was built on a hill so the town’s people were able to see how horrible it really was this also stopped people wonting to go into the workhouse. I can also see a Dead house i think that this is where the dead people would have been put. Suggesting what? The inmates mite have had to break the Bones of there Dead inmates in here Very grim!
Well done Sophie, just make a couple of extra comments as suggested then print this out and give it to me so that I can grade it. Also amend the spelling of the words “wanted” and “might”.
can you help me with this quertion plz
Source a- Andover work house
Source a, tells us a lot about Andover workhouse. Firstly, this source shows that in the centre of the building is the master’s quarters, this is probably so the master can keep an eye on what is going on all around the workhouse. This could also be so the workers living in the building look at the master’s quarters and will be scared into doing more work, as the master will be watching. Excellent Another thing that you can tell about Andover’s is that it has a bone house. This could be called the bone house as the type of work that the workers would do could be crushing bones. Andover is set upon a hill that is surrounded by a tall wall. This could be for a number of reasons. For instance, paupers living in any nearby cities or towns may look up at the tall wall surrounding the building and would try to buck up their ideas so they don’t end up in there, as it looks like a prison with the big walls. The hill and the wall could also be so the workers inside feel separate to the rest of the world and feel that their life is dedicated to the work that they are set to do. also there is a dead house, this indicates that alot of people might die in there time of being there, this could also say that the hard work that the workers do could be life thratening.
Very good. You don’t need much help. What I would suggest is perhaps just making one more observation. Also check spelling of the word THREATENING. Well done! Print out for me with your name and title so that I can grade this piece of work.
From source A, you can learn that workhouses in 1842 were like prisons; we know this because it’s all enclosed with big walls around the workhouse which made getting out for inmates very difficult. You can also learn that workhouses separated the males and females; they would have done this to break up families and to stop more children from being born. Also Because of the Diagram. We can see that there is a master’s quarter, this show that the inmates inside the work house would have had no freedom to make their own decisions and had someone to look over them. That masters building was in the middle so that it separated the males and females. He is in the middle so he can see both males and females. Also from the source you can learn that the workhouses were built on a hill so the town’s people were away from their families and friends. It also Suggest that they were lonely, this also would stop people wanting to go into the workhouse. I can also see a Dead house I think that this is where the dead people would have been put. This Suggesting that a lot of people would have died in the workhouse. Also the inmates might have had to break the Bones of there Dead inmates in here Very grim!
A historian studying The Andover workhouse would find source B useful for explain what part the workhouse played in the new system, it explains that there would be people who were paid to do jobs, it also Says that there was a Board of Guardians who would make sure that the workhouse was run properly, they also would keep an eye on the master of the workhouses. It also told us how it should be run, but the Source doesn’t tell us what happen in the workhouse it self. It should be reliable because it was written by peter lane for a school text book, but only intend for children but a historian would won’t to read Original sources or text. Peter lane wrote this in 1979 this makes the text out dated. Also Text books to day give you Original sources.
Sources C, D and E
Source C disagrees with both d and e because it give a good impression Of the Andover workhouse. It was written by a doctor in the early 1840s and it tells us that he considered the workhouse to be clean, in good order and that the men, women and children were healthy, where as Source give a bad impression and source E there was rumors of a scandal.
Source D disagrees with Source C but agrees with Some of Source E because it was described by a pauper saying people were so that hungry that they were eat the flesh off the rotting bones
Source E slightly agrees with Source C, because it says the Andover workhouse followed the regulations with seem to say that there was nothing wrong like source C. It was written by David Taylor for a school text book starts off by say that the Andover workhouse followed the instruction from the regulations issued by the poor law commissioners, but later on it talk about how the scandal came too light. It shows that Source E Agrees with Source D when it talk about the Scandal of eating of raw flesh because they were so hungry. I think that this Source agrees more with Source D because it talks about how mp got involved about the scandal.
I need to add more of my own knowlig
heyya sir
hope u are having a good hoilday and i really crnt be bovvered to do this coursework so i will stay at the end of the day on wednesday and do it then
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