History homework June 2009
Please answer TWO of the following questions either on the blog or on paper.
Deadline is Friday 26th June.
1. Describe briefly how the land in an open field village was used (4 marks)
2) Explain why the open field system limited the amount of food that coud be produced. (6 marks)
3) The following all contributed to development in agriculture: Jethro Tull, Lord Townshend, Robert Bakewell. Was any one of these more important than the others in improving farming methods? Refer to all of the individuals in your answer. (10 marks)
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Course work 2
1)source A what can you learn from source A about workhouse at Andover
From source A you can learn that the Andover work house in 1842 was like a prison; we know this because its all enclosed with big walls around the workhouse around the workhouse which would make getting out very difficult for inmates. You can also learn that workhouses separated males and females; they would have done this to break up families and maybe to stop children from being born, also because of the digram we can see that there is a master’s quarter, this shows that the inmates inside the workhouse would have freedom make their own decisions and had someone to look over them, that why the masters building was in the middle, between the males and females quarters so that is separated the males and females. Also from the source you can learn the workhouse was 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 wanting to go into the workhouse. Also from the source I can see that that the Andover workhouse had a dead house I think this is where the dead would have been put, this suggest that a lot of people would have died in the workhouse. Also the inmates might have had to break there dead inmates in the bone house .
2)Source b how useful is source B for historian studding Andover workhouse
Source B is telling me what part the workhouse played in the new system, it explains that there would have been people who were paid to do jobs inside the workhouse, it also says that there was a board of guardians who would make sure that the workhouses was run properly, they also would keep an eye on the master of the workhouses. It has also told us how the would have should be ran
A historian studding Andover workhouse might find source B useful because the source gives us information in general, but doesn’t tell us what happen in the Andover workhouse itself like daily routines jobs diet. In the text is doesn’t say anything about the Andover workhouse so it makes this text not very useful if only looking at the Andover workhouse. To be useful to a historian studying Andover we would need to know what happened inside Andover workhouse and we would need to compare Andover to other workhouses
this test should be trustworthy because it was written by peter lane who we would think is an historian because he is writing for a school text book. Peter lane wrote this in 1979 this would make the text outdated, but in general I would think this source is trustworthy and therefore useful
In my conclusion I think source B isn’t very useful to a historian studying the Andover workhouse because it doesn’t talk about the Andover workhouse, but it could be useful to a historian studying about all workhouses.
3)study source C and D which of sources C and D provides the most reliable evidence about conditions in the workhouse at Andover? Explain your answer using sources C and D and your own knowledge
Source C was written by a doctor so you would think this would make the source very reliable because a doctor is a respected person in society. The doctor says that everything is fine in the Andover workhouse “cleanliness and goof order cannot be exceed, with healthy appearance of men,” but from what I know from other sources and from my own knowledge this must be unreliable because parliament (as in source E – “report of the parliamentary select committee) and the newspaper ( as in source E – “ the times sent a reporter to Andover”) suggests that there was a scandal the doctor may have wrote source C because the people in charge of the offered money, or maybe if he didn’t do this he could lose his job. If this is true then this would make the source less reliable. On the other hand when the doctors wrote his report, maybe everything was fine. This was because the report was written in 1840 before the Andover workhouse scandal (which was 1845) had become known. If this is the case then this would make the source more reliable. This could made more reliable if there was more by having more than one doctor’s reports because there would have been more evidence of what that conditions were like
source D could be reliable because it was written by a pauper at the time of the scandal – 1846, he talks about how “ we used to be like a pack of dogs” over the fresh of bones and this is what the papers reported when looking into the scandal – in source E it says “..so hungry eating raw flesh…” but this source could also be less reliable because he could have been doing it to make the Andover workhouse sound worse that it really was so people would feel sorry for him because he was treated badly he wonted the workhouse to be shut down.
In my Conclusion I think that source D and E were the most reliable because there are two source telling me that same thing, this means that I feel that Source C is less reliable this is because there is only one source from that time, and it is tell me different what what I have learn from source D and E and from my own knowledge. But Both D and E would have been written for the press, witch makes it less reliable.
4)source C, D and E how far do these source agree there a scandal at the Andover workhouse in the mid 1840s
Source C disagrees with both D and E because it gives a good impression of the Andover workhouse. It written by a doctor would be seen as a reliable person in the early 1840 before the Andover scandal and it tells us that he considers the workhouse clean, in good order and the men, women and children were healthy this makes it unreliable, where as source D gives a bad impression and source E there was a rumour or a scandal. So this suggest that there must be something wrong, this means that the doctor could have lied this could have been for money, to save his job or maybe he didn’t wont be to find out. Or he could have said it before the sandal even happened.
Source D agrees with Source E because they both talk about there being something wrong with the Andover workhouse. One from a pauper (this make it reliable because it was written by some one who was there) talking about having to eat the raw flesh of the bones. And another from a reporter who had been to see what had happened this makes it reliable because he say it . But both disagree with source C because it talks about there being nothing wrong with the workhouse. But source C and D Slightly agree with each other because it say that the Andover workhouse followed all the regulations that means they don’t seem to be doing nothing wrong. Source C is written by David Taylor from a school text book this makes this reliable because it was written to be learnt from.