What Relief?


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Arteza pencils.  The title is a pun on the poor relief system.  My research has led me to have a more nuanced view as to whether the system was better or worse than we have now, especially prior to the harsher implementation of the ‘workhouse test’ and the Poor Law Amendment Act 1834 (Framlingham closed in 1838).  Imagined inmates are seen in the loft.

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Arteza pencils.  The title is a pun on the poor relief system.  My research has led me to have a more nuanced view as to whether the system was better or worse than we have now, especially prior to the harsher implementation of the ‘workhouse test’ and the Poor Law Amendment Act 1834 (Framlingham closed in 1838).  Imagined inmates are