{"id":17662,"date":"2022-08-24T19:13:36","date_gmt":"2022-08-24T18:13:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/site\/?post_type=events&p=17662"},"modified":"2022-09-09T17:30:14","modified_gmt":"2022-09-09T16:30:14","slug":"bedminster-workhouse-the-life-and-death-of-hannah-wiltshire","status":"publish","type":"events","link":"https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/site\/events\/bedminster-workhouse-the-life-and-death-of-hannah-wiltshire\/","title":{"rendered":"Bedminster Workhouse: The Life and Death of Hannah Wiltshire"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
\"\"
Bedminster Union Workhouse at Flax Bourton, photograph \u00a9 Peter Higginbotham<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In 1855 rumours of murder and a cover up were circulating in the small north Somerset village of Walton-in-Gordano.\u00a0 An epileptic destitute country girl, Hannah Wiltshire, had died in the Bedminster Union Workhouse at Flax Bourton. The Board of Guardians were suspected of concealing the true magnitude of neglect at the workhouse, leading to accusations of medical negligence.\u00a0 Wiltshire’s death caused public outrage after letters were written to the local newspapers.<\/p>\n

This talk illustrates the treatment imposed upon the vulnerable poor living in rural England during the mid-nineteenth century and how a campaign for transparency, accountability and social justice was fought for by the local community. The talk will include newly discovered letters of complaint written to the Poor Law Board by Sir Arthur Elton of Clevedon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In 1855 rumours of murder and a cover up were circulating in the small north Somerset village of Walton-in-Gordano.\u00a0 An epileptic destitute country girl, Hannah Wiltshire, had died in the Bedminster Union Workhouse at Flax Bourton. The Board of Guardians were suspected of concealing the true magnitude of neglect at the workhouse, leading to accusations […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":7651,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"categories":[],"tags":[869,1614,1613,1172,1174,857],"class_list":["post-17662","events","type-events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-bedminster-workhouse","tag-elton","tag-epilepsy","tag-flax-bourton","tag-guardians","tag-workhouse"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nBedminster Workhouse: The Life and Death of Hannah Wiltshire - Bristol Radical History Group<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/site\/events\/bedminster-workhouse-the-life-and-death-of-hannah-wiltshire\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Bedminster Workhouse: The Life and Death of Hannah Wiltshire - Bristol Radical History Group\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"In 1855 rumours of murder and a cover up were circulating in the small north Somerset village of Walton-in-Gordano.\u00a0 An epileptic destitute country girl, Hannah Wiltshire, had died in the Bedminster Union Workhouse at Flax Bourton. The Board of Guardians were suspected of concealing the true magnitude of neglect at the workhouse, leading to accusations […]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/site\/events\/bedminster-workhouse-the-life-and-death-of-hannah-wiltshire\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Bristol Radical History Group\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/126960655805\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2022-09-09T16:30:14+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/35-hannah-wiltshire-front.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"707\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1000\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@BrisRadHis\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Bedminster Workhouse: The Life and Death of Hannah Wiltshire - Bristol Radical History Group","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/site\/events\/bedminster-workhouse-the-life-and-death-of-hannah-wiltshire\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Bedminster Workhouse: The Life and Death of Hannah Wiltshire - Bristol Radical History Group","og_description":"In 1855 rumours of murder and a cover up were circulating in the small north Somerset village of Walton-in-Gordano.\u00a0 An epileptic destitute country girl, Hannah Wiltshire, had died in the Bedminster Union Workhouse at Flax Bourton. The Board of Guardians were suspected of concealing the true magnitude of neglect at the workhouse, leading to accusations […]","og_url":"https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/site\/events\/bedminster-workhouse-the-life-and-death-of-hannah-wiltshire\/","og_site_name":"Bristol Radical History Group","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/126960655805\/","article_modified_time":"2022-09-09T16:30:14+00:00","og_image":[{"width":707,"height":1000,"url":"https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/35-hannah-wiltshire-front.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_site":"@BrisRadHis","twitter_misc":{"Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/site\/events\/bedminster-workhouse-the-life-and-death-of-hannah-wiltshire\/","url":"https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/site\/events\/bedminster-workhouse-the-life-and-death-of-hannah-wiltshire\/","name":"Bedminster Workhouse: The Life and Death of Hannah Wiltshire - Bristol Radical History Group","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/site\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/site\/events\/bedminster-workhouse-the-life-and-death-of-hannah-wiltshire\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/site\/events\/bedminster-workhouse-the-life-and-death-of-hannah-wiltshire\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/35-hannah-wiltshire-front.jpg","datePublished":"2022-08-24T18:13:36+00:00","dateModified":"2022-09-09T16:30:14+00:00","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/site\/events\/bedminster-workhouse-the-life-and-death-of-hannah-wiltshire\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/site\/events\/bedminster-workhouse-the-life-and-death-of-hannah-wiltshire\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/site\/events\/bedminster-workhouse-the-life-and-death-of-hannah-wiltshire\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/35-hannah-wiltshire-front.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/35-hannah-wiltshire-front.jpg","width":707,"height":1000,"caption":"HAnnah Wiltshire Front Cover"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/site\/events\/bedminster-workhouse-the-life-and-death-of-hannah-wiltshire\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Events","item":"https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/site\/events\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Bedminster Workhouse: The Life and Death of Hannah Wiltshire"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/site\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/site\/","name":"Bristol Radical History Group","description":"History From Below","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/site\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/site\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/site\/#organization","name":"Bristol Radical History Group","url":"https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/site\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/site\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/full-logo-small.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/full-logo-small.png","width":594,"height":500,"caption":"Bristol Radical History Group"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/site\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/126960655805\/","https:\/\/x.com\/BrisRadHis"]}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/events\/17662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17662"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}