Author: Anstruther, Ian
Title: The Scandal Of The Andover Workhouse
Description: Geoffrey Bles, 1973, 1st edition. Imitation cloth, dj, VG/G. 176pp, decorated endpapes, 8pp b/w plates, folding map, index, price clipped dustjacket with a crudely repaired tear to the upper panel & a chip on the top edge of the same, related newspaper clippings laid in. Hardback with dustjacket. ISBN: 0713805900 ¶ A study of the administration of the English 'New Poor Law', which came to a head in 1845 when it was revealed that inmates at the Andover workshouse had been forced to eat the gristle from bones which were destined to be crushed by them for fertlizer.

Keywords: ISBN 0713805900, victorian history, social history, wiltshire 0713805900