Books and articles
- Michael Allen. Charles Dickens' childhood. St. Leonards: Oxford-Stockley, 2012.
- Michael Allen. Charles Dickens and the blacking factory. St. Leonards: Oxford-Stockley, 2011.
- Ian Anstruther. The scandal of the Andover Workhouse. London: Sutton, 1984.
- Geraldine Ayer. England’s First State Hospitals and the Metropolitan Asylums Board 1867-1930. London : Wellcome Institute of the History of Medicine, 1971.
- Paul Cranefield. The way in and the way out: Francois Magendie, Charles Bell and the roots of the spinal nerves. Mount Kisco, New York: Futura, 1974.
- David Green. ‘Icons of the new system: workhouse construction and relief practices in London under the Old and New Poor Law’. The London Journal, 34:3, (2009), 264-284.
- Peter Higginbotham. Life in a Victorian workhouse. Andover: Pitkin, 2011.
- Peter Higginbotham. Voices from the workhouse. Stroud: History Press, 2012.
- Norman Longmate. The workhouse. London: Temple Smith, 1974.
- Tim Marshall. Murdering to dissect. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1995.
- Tim Marshall. Stolen hearts. Nottingham: Critical, Cultural and Communications Press, 2007.
- Ruth Richardson. Death, dissection and the destitute. Chicago: Chicago University Press, 2000.
- Ruth Richardson. Dickens & the workhouse. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2012.
- Ruth Richardson. ‘Rogers’ Family Tree’. The Lancet, 357, (2001), 2144.
- Ruth Richardson and Brian Hurwitz. ‘Joseph Rogers and the reform of workhouse medicine’. British Medical Journal, 299, (1989), 1507–1510.
- Roger Wells. Wretched faces. London: Breviary Stuff, 2011.
In this exhibition
- Victorian tight-fistedness versus kindness
- The Italian Boy and the unclaimed poor
- Strand parishes, Dickens and the Poor Law
- Joseph Rogers MD - parish doctor
- The Poor Law in 'All the Year Round'
- Further reading
- Books and articles
- Websites
- Acknowledgements