Welfare History and Heritage Association

Promoting understanding of historical poverty and welfare and compassion for the contemporary poor. All welfare is political. Poverty is a legacy of the past.

[Welfare History and Heritage Association @WelfareHistory]

Join us on 6 July for our next free talk in our current series Workhouse Lives. Steve King (Nottingham Trent) will be discussing Eavesdropping in Workhouses. This event is open to all. Please book here:
https://t.co/3ZjiFahGH7

[Y Dolydd - Llanfyllin’s Workhouse @y_dolydd]

At today’s official Master’s House reopening, Dr Paul Carter tells us about the importance of Y Dolydd - Llanfyllin’s Workhouse as his favourite in the U.K. @WorkhouseNet @cadwwales @UkNatArchives @LlanfyllinTown @TNLComFundWales

[The Poverty Alliance @PovertyAlliance]

UK Government ministers have a choice. They can make the biggest overnight cut to the basic rate of social security since the birth of the modern welfare state, deepening poverty for many.

Or they can do the right thing, #KeepTheLifeline and give people the stability they need.

[Thackray Museum of Medicine @thackraymuseum]

We’ve been a lot of things to many people over the past year...

AND now we get to be even more to our community and visitors as we celebrate being shortlisted for Art Fund Museum of the Year 2021!

@artfund #museumoftheyear

[The Poverty Alliance @PovertyAlliance]

In response to our FOI request, the UK Government have refused to publish their analysis of the impact on poverty of the planned £20 Universal Credit cut.

They say it is not in the public interest. But that cannot be right. We all deserve to know.

https://t.co/e3xx9ruLZu

[Y Dolydd - Llanfyllin’s Workhouse @y_dolydd]

An exciting and long-anticipated opening of the Master’s House open to all on 14th August. @WorkhouseNet @HistoricEngland @cadwwales @visitwales @YsgolLlanfyllin @LlanfyllinNews

[The Poverty Alliance @PovertyAlliance]

📢NEW JOB ALERT: Do you want to help oversee the growth of our network, and lead our approach to the participation of people with experience of poverty?

Then apply to be our new Communities and Network Manager!

⏳Deadline: 9th August

Full details: https://t.co/9WFw9DFFUE

[Dr Vicky Holmes FRHistS @Vicky_Holmes]

Save the date! Objects of Poverty Conference Programme - 27 August 2021. Keynotes @DrJulieHardwick and @C_L_Nielsen Booking to open in the next couple of weeks.
https://t.co/MPmi2zP8oX

[Welfare at a Social Distance @DistantWelfare]

Join us 9am tomorrow for #SPA2021 symposium on attitudes to #benefits, chaired by our own @BenBaumberg w team presentations on deservingness & fulough @lisa_scullion @daniel_edmiston @joingold @kateesummers @DavidRobertsha7 @DHJ_Young

[Y Dolydd - Llanfyllin’s Workhouse @y_dolydd]

THIS WEEKEND!
Llanfyllin’s Workhouse opens after 18 months with the best of British Arts & Crafts. FREE ENTRY / £3 cars.
@ShropshireStar @AnwenParryCT @PowysCountry @WorkhouseNet @YsgolLlanfyllin @LlanfyllinNews @Arts_Connection

[Thackray Museum of Medicine @thackraymuseum]

⭐ @stephenfry ⭐encourages you to visit Thackray Museum of Medicine

👉 We hope you heed his advice... after all, it's actual Stephen Fry!

🎟 We're OPEN! https://t.co/Pmu1DukRPv

[Welfare History and Heritage Association @WelfareHistory]

Join us on 8 June for our next free talk in our current series Workhouse Lives. Lewis Darwen (Roehampton) will be discussing Work in the Workhouse. This event is open to all. Please book here:
https://t.co/ZSj26Ts7bN

[Crisis @crisis_uk]

The UK government has published guidance on new immigration rules, which makes rough sleeping grounds for enforced removal – regardless of whether someone is living in the UK legally.

Together with 63 other orgs, we're urging the Govt. to scrap these new rules immediately. (1/2)

[Welfare at a Social Distance @DistantWelfare]

'The stigma that thrives in secrecy': great new guest blog from @Sophianegus @CRESR_SHU on complex feelings of shame from working #benefit claimants - on our site now https://t.co/FJdloHHpiv

[Patrick Butler @patrickjbutler]

My @Guardian story: Gavin Williamson's "root and branch" review of children's social care comes under fire as ex-government advisor warns it ignores the role of poverty and funding cuts https://t.co/tgd0PWWEGT

[Welfare History and Heritage Association @WelfareHistory]

Join us on 11 May for our next free talk in our current series Workhouse Lives. Natalie Carter will be discussing Writing in the Workhouse. This event is open to all. Please book here: https://t.co/sfAvORPara

[Welfare History and Heritage Association @WelfareHistory]

Decades of media stigma have led to an environment where people don't believe they deserve the help they need.

[Patrick Butler @patrickjbutler]

My @guardian story: Tens of thousands did not claim universal credit during Covid because of fears over "scrounger" benefit shame, despite struggling financially, @DistantWelfare study finds https://t.co/xPQ16ha5te

[Patrick Butler @patrickjbutler]

My @guardian story: Food not the answer, says UK's biggest food bank charity @TrussellTrust, as it gives out 2.5m food parcels amid "historic" levels of need https://t.co/Z8HJdgoyxn @tr

[Katie Schmuecker @KatieSchmuecker]

How can you plan family life when you don't know from one week to the next the hours you'll be working?

Such important research from @LivingWageUK today on notice of shifts.

https://t.co/c0fybodjOi

A short thread... 1/3

[Welfare History and Heritage Association @WelfareHistory]

Great talk from @carolbea explaining the different types of scandals in the workhouse and how they were dealt with at the time. Raising many issues within the workhouse #workhouselives