| My Book! 17:44 - Oct 26 with 3522 views | Jeff_winger |
Hi All
I released my book on Sunday and I'm currently sitting at Number Two best seller in one of Amazon's categories. Outselling Michael Palin and kept off the top spot by Professor Brian Cox.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/18zIpyb4rpj8r3UU4V0ndt8h96T14tFnR/view?usp=shari
I don't know how to add an image to this post but the above link is an image of my current ranking.
I know it's a moment in time and I will drop like a stone a few days after my release, but it would be so good to get to number one.
If anyone is interested in the History or Victorian Workhouses, the poor law acts or the History of Mildenhall.
Please buy my book and help me get to number one.
I'm on the Lesley Dolphin show on 11th November which should also help.
Anyway link below if you can help a town fan out.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1399906887/ref=as_sl_pc_tf_til?tag=suffolkhistor-21&
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| My Book! on 17:47 - Oct 26 with 3450 views | Ewan_Oozami |
Always like to support an author so will purchase - just wondering if any current TWTD posters are descended from those poor unfortunates? |  |
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| My Book! on 17:50 - Oct 26 with 3432 views | Jeff_winger |
| My Book! on 17:47 - Oct 26 by Ewan_Oozami |
Always like to support an author so will purchase - just wondering if any current TWTD posters are descended from those poor unfortunates? |
Could well be, I should think if we research wide enough we are probably all related some way to a poor inmate.
Records for Workhouses are almost non existent so unless you had an ancestor who had made the paper while in the "Spike" or happened to be there during a census it's hard to know for sure.
Hope you enjoy the book, there's some really interesting true stories of the desperate and destitute in there.
Thanks for the support | | | |
| My Book! on 17:54 - Oct 26 with 3406 views | Plums |
Congratulations! I used to live in the Red House on Kingsway in Mildenhall. I seem to recall being told in my youth that it was connected to the workhouse but can’t recall any details. I’ll buy the book and find out! [Post edited 26 Oct 2021 17:55]
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| My Book! on 18:09 - Oct 26 with 3353 views | Jeff_winger |
| My Book! on 17:54 - Oct 26 by Plums |
Congratulations! I used to live in the Red House on Kingsway in Mildenhall. I seem to recall being told in my youth that it was connected to the workhouse but can’t recall any details. I’ll buy the book and find out! [Post edited 26 Oct 2021 17:55]
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Locals used to call the workhouse redhouse.
And the sins of the workhouse master had a nursery opposite called red house nurseries.
Where abouts was the house on kings way and what year?
Was it where police station is or opposite ?
Would be interested to know | | | |
| My Book! on 18:16 - Oct 26 with 3316 views | Plums |
| My Book! on 18:09 - Oct 26 by Jeff_winger |
Locals used to call the workhouse redhouse.
And the sins of the workhouse master had a nursery opposite called red house nurseries.
Where abouts was the house on kings way and what year?
Was it where police station is or opposite ?
Would be interested to know |
It was (and still is) 101 Kingsway. Next door to the Half Moon pub (the gable end of the pub was the side wall of our garden). Next door and behind on the other side was Blooms nurseries. | |
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| My Book! on 22:39 - Oct 26 with 3121 views | WeWereZombies |
| My Book! on 17:50 - Oct 26 by Jeff_winger |
Could well be, I should think if we research wide enough we are probably all related some way to a poor inmate.
Records for Workhouses are almost non existent so unless you had an ancestor who had made the paper while in the "Spike" or happened to be there during a census it's hard to know for sure.
Hope you enjoy the book, there's some really interesting true stories of the desperate and destitute in there.
Thanks for the support |
You could always ask Facters if he was ever the Beadle at one of these establishments... |  |
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| My Book! on 22:49 - Oct 26 with 3102 views | Ryorry |
Wow, impressive or wot - celeb!
The way things are currently going in this country, I wouldn't be surprised to see workhouses return ... :( |  |
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| My Book! on 00:15 - Oct 27 with 3012 views | factual_blue |
Fascinating stories abound about the Union Workhouses. They were greeted, particularly in rural areas like Suffolk with violent hatred. Agricultural seasonal workers saw no shame in accepting 'outdoor relief' under the pre-1834 arrangements. When that was supposed to stop, and 'the offer of the Workhouse' was the only support supposed to be available, there was widespread unrest. Cosford Union workhouse at Semer near Lavenham was in particular beset of persistent violence.
One of the early head of Cosford Workhouse was a Mr Ensor. He was a cousin of John Constable, and went on to establish Ensors accountancy firm in Ipswich.
Poverty was a big part of my OU Masters degree. |  |
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| My Book! on 05:51 - Oct 27 with 2921 views | Jeff_winger |
| My Book! on 00:15 - Oct 27 by factual_blue |
Fascinating stories abound about the Union Workhouses. They were greeted, particularly in rural areas like Suffolk with violent hatred. Agricultural seasonal workers saw no shame in accepting 'outdoor relief' under the pre-1834 arrangements. When that was supposed to stop, and 'the offer of the Workhouse' was the only support supposed to be available, there was widespread unrest. Cosford Union workhouse at Semer near Lavenham was in particular beset of persistent violence.
One of the early head of Cosford Workhouse was a Mr Ensor. He was a cousin of John Constable, and went on to establish Ensors accountancy firm in Ipswich.
Poverty was a big part of my OU Masters degree. |
Brilliant, it's a really interesting subject to research.
An argument that has existed for 100s of years , how do you help those in need of support.
The victorians definitely got it wrong, at a time when they got so much right | | | |
| My Book! on 06:33 - Oct 27 with 2901 views | Warkystache |
| My Book! on 05:51 - Oct 27 by Jeff_winger |
Brilliant, it's a really interesting subject to research.
An argument that has existed for 100s of years , how do you help those in need of support.
The victorians definitely got it wrong, at a time when they got so much right |
I'll be buying a copy. The bits I've read are fascinating. I like social history, especially around the old 'poor houses' and their social effect on keeping people alive in the most basic of ways.
Good stuff. |  |
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| My Book! on 08:08 - Oct 27 with 2813 views | SaleAway |
Sounds interesting - thought I would buy it, but turns out its available as part of my Kindle unlimited subscription.... so I have a question.... do you get a different amount if I buy a kindle version, to if I just download a copy from unlimited? I've always wondered how it worked, so the opportunity to ask an author seems too good to pass up. |  |
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| My Book! on 09:34 - Oct 27 with 2730 views | eastangliaisblue |
I will be buying a copy. Coincidentally I am reading a book at the moment called 'Angel Meadow Victorian Britain's Most Savage Slum.' It is a fascinating read into how bad things were for the poorest in society of that era. I highly recommend it. |  | | |
| My Book! on 10:20 - Oct 27 with 2642 views | Darth_Koont |
| My Book! on 05:51 - Oct 27 by Jeff_winger |
Brilliant, it's a really interesting subject to research.
An argument that has existed for 100s of years , how do you help those in need of support.
The victorians definitely got it wrong, at a time when they got so much right |
Coincidentally, I was just reading the section of Bill Bryson’s At Home where he talks about the workhouse. Grim reading.
As you say, the Victorians got it wrong and increased the misery. But amazing that they could see that extreme poverty as somehow inevitable because that’s what the poor deserved and the rich and/or titled deserved their privilege. Quite a belief system in place, with a few echoes of that still today.
Well done and good luck! |  |
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| My Book! on 12:22 - Oct 27 with 2473 views | Jeff_winger |
| My Book! on 08:08 - Oct 27 by SaleAway |
Sounds interesting - thought I would buy it, but turns out its available as part of my Kindle unlimited subscription.... so I have a question.... do you get a different amount if I buy a kindle version, to if I just download a copy from unlimited? I've always wondered how it worked, so the opportunity to ask an author seems too good to pass up. |
Hi
I get paid royalties on the amount of pages read on kindle unlimited.
So if you lend it out I get paid again when the pages are read again.
I have no idea how amazon know if your reading a page or just flicking through, I assume you have to have the page open for a certain time period? | | | |
| My Book! on 12:23 - Oct 27 with 2469 views | Jeff_winger |
Thank you everyone, your support is much appreciated.
Thank you Gav for pinning my post
Thanks
Danny | | | |
| My Book! on 14:01 - Oct 27 with 2372 views | BiGDonnie |
Smashed it, hope it get's to number 1! |  |
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| My Book! on 16:33 - Oct 27 with 2276 views | factual_blue |
| My Book! on 05:51 - Oct 27 by Jeff_winger |
Brilliant, it's a really interesting subject to research.
An argument that has existed for 100s of years , how do you help those in need of support.
The victorians definitely got it wrong, at a time when they got so much right |
The problem of poverty relief changed for a number of reasons in the first half of the 19th century. There was a long, long agricultural depression, and also the remarkably rapid rise in the size of towns and cities. Near-destitute people fled the countryside, hearing jobs were ten a penny in the factories of the cities.
Trouble is, there weren't endless jobs. That left the towns with growing numbers of destitute people dependent on parish relief.
The solution was basically invented by the good folk of Nottinghamshire, who opened the first example of what became 'Union' workhouses at Southwell (a NT property that is a must see). Their aim was to get rid of the poor flocking to Nottingham. The idea was that the only form of relief would be 'the offer of the workhouse'. No outdoor relief (dole). Most people would clear off rather than enter the workhouse.
They then flogged the solution to a desperate government and the 'New' Poor law received Royal Assent in 1834.
Just to be pedantic, Union Workhouses weren't Victorian in origin. | |
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| My Book! on 17:38 - Oct 27 with 2230 views | Jeff_winger |
| My Book! on 16:33 - Oct 27 by factual_blue |
The problem of poverty relief changed for a number of reasons in the first half of the 19th century. There was a long, long agricultural depression, and also the remarkably rapid rise in the size of towns and cities. Near-destitute people fled the countryside, hearing jobs were ten a penny in the factories of the cities.
Trouble is, there weren't endless jobs. That left the towns with growing numbers of destitute people dependent on parish relief.
The solution was basically invented by the good folk of Nottinghamshire, who opened the first example of what became 'Union' workhouses at Southwell (a NT property that is a must see). Their aim was to get rid of the poor flocking to Nottingham. The idea was that the only form of relief would be 'the offer of the workhouse'. No outdoor relief (dole). Most people would clear off rather than enter the workhouse.
They then flogged the solution to a desperate government and the 'New' Poor law received Royal Assent in 1834.
Just to be pedantic, Union Workhouses weren't Victorian in origin. |
No the victorians did not invent the idea of the workhouse.
Or working for relief, they didn't even event the "test" they did take all the ideas already in existence and wrap them all up together.
The union workhouse was a victorian concept.
Although the book is titled a victorian workhouse (Mildenhall Union workhouse was built in 1895) the first chapter covers poor relief from medieval onwards, although as a background rather than any granular detail | | | |
| My Book! on 18:35 - Oct 27 with 2165 views | Oldboy |
Purchased. |  | | |
| My Book! on 18:56 - Oct 27 with 2133 views | Jeff_winger |
| My Book! on 18:35 - Oct 27 by Oldboy |
Purchased. |
Thank you
It means a lot
Uppa towen | | | |
| My Book! on 10:23 - Oct 29 with 1479 views | Wicksy |
Not what I'd normally read but looks interesting. Just bought it.
Best of luck! |  |
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| My Book! on 16:06 - Oct 29 with 1364 views | Jeff_winger |
| My Book! on 10:23 - Oct 29 by Wicksy |
Not what I'd normally read but looks interesting. Just bought it.
Best of luck! |
Thank you so much, I knew TWTD would support my.
What an awesome community, Phil may have to dish out some rollockings sometimes.
But it's a good bunch really | | | |
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