Printed
Primary
- “Address to the inhabitants of Nottingham by the retiring Board of Guardians”, William Vickers (30 March 1841)
- James Orange, History and antiquities of Nottingham, II, (1840) records workhouse diets.
Newspapers
Newspaper reports of the meetings of the Board of Guardians are a very useful insight into the running of the Workhouse; for example, the Nottingham Mercury of 11 February 1842 gives a good account of the criticism of the Board of Guardians.
Secondary
- Brand, Ken. ‘Temporary Accommodation’, Nottingham Civic Society Newsletter
- Caplan, M. In the Shadow of the Workhouse. The Implementation of the New Poor Law Throughout Nottinghamshire, 1836-46 (Centre for Local History Occasional Papers, 3). Univ. of Nottingham, Dept. of Adult Education, 1984. 82 p., ill.
- Caplan, M. The Administration of the Poor Law in the Unions of Southwell and Basford: 1836-71. Ph.D., Nottingham, 1967. 554 p., ill., bibl.
- Caplan, M. 'The Poor Law in Nottinghamshire, 1836-71', Transactions of the Thoroton Society, 74 (1970), [82]-98, ill.
- The CHAD. By-gone Mansfield, produced by The Chad newspaper contains pictures and some writing about the workhouse in Mansfield.
- Clark, D. The Early Days of Retford Workhouse (Eaton Hall College of Education Monographs, 3). [Eaton, 1969]. [18] p.
- Coleman, A. Care (and Neglect) of the Poor in Eastwood and District: A Brief Account of the Poor Law. [Eastwood?, privately published, 1972]. 39 p., ill.
- Collins, H. 'The Pattern of Poor Law Removals in Nottinghamshire in the Early Nineteenth Century', Local Population Studies, no. 27 (1981), 71-78.
- Couth, W. `Bingham, Bastardy and the Poor Law Amendment Act of 1834', BLH-EMR, 20 (1985), [18]-24.
- Fry, T. 'A Look at Basford Union Workhouse', Not Fam Hist SJ, 5, 11 (1988), 36-37.
- Fry, T. 'The Basford Union Workhouse', in Bowley, A ed., Basford and district from 1821-1851, Basford & District Local History Society Project, (2006), 35-39.
- Griffin, C. P. 'Chartism and Opposition to the New Poor Law in Nottinghamshire: The Basford Union Workhouse Affair of 1844', Midland History, 2 (1974), 244-249.
- Hammond, P. J. 'More London Parish Apprentices Sent to Nottinghamshire', Not Fam Hist SJ, 8, 5 (1995), 22-23.
- Hammond, P. J. 'The Recipients of Nottingham's Poor Relief in 1766', Not Fam Hist SJ, 8, 4 (1995), 14-16.
- Higginbotham, Peter. Images of England. Workhouses of the Midlands, Stroud, Tempus (2007)
- Jones, L. P. The Social and Economic Effects of the Laws of Settlement on the Nottinghamshire Parishes of Bradmore, Bunny, Clifton, Ruddington and Wilford, circa 1780-1880. M.A., Nottingham, 1987. 122 p., ill., bibl.
- Lewin, Fiona V. ‘Mansfield Poor Law Union 1890-1930’, (University of Wales, Bangor, Undergraduate Dissertation HDH 3075, April 2008).
- Marshall, J. D. 'The Nottinghamshire Reformers and Their Contribution to the New Poor Law', Economic History Review., 2 ser., 13 (1961), 382-396.
- Marson, L. '"Owd Baggy"', BB, issue 57 (1995), 2-4, ill., front cover. Nottingham Union Workhouse, Bagthorpe.
- Mills, D. R. 'Francis Howell's Report on the Operation of the Laws of Settlement in Nottinghamshire, 1848', Transactions of the Thoroton Society, 76 (1972), [46]-52.
- Mills, D. R. 'The Geographical Effects of the Laws of Settlement in Nottinghamshire: An Analysis of Francis Howell's Report, 1848', in Osborne, R. H. and others, eds., Geographical Essays in Honour of K. C. Edwards (Dept of Geography, Univ. of Nottingham, 1970), 31-38. Ill. Repr. in EMG, 5, 33-34 (1970), 31-38, and in Mills, D. R., ed., English Rural Communities: The Impact of a Specialised Economy (Macmillan, 1973), [182]-191.
- Morley, G. A. `William Ashton, Retired Workhouse Master', NC, 30, 3 (1970), 10-11.
- Norwell Poor, January 1817', transcribed by J. B. Bailey, Nottinghamshire Family History Soc., Miscellany, 5 (RS, 107) (Nottingham, The Soc., 1996), 53.
- Nottinghamshire Archives Office. Poor Law Union Records (Nottinghamshire Archives Information Sheets, [Record Topics, 1]). [Nottingham], 1987. 4 p.
- Nottingham Union Workhouse. Admissions and discharges register, 1st November 1856 to 11th December 1858 (RS, 101). Nottingham, Nottinghamshire Family History Soc., 1995. 92 p., ill. Ed. by J. B. Bailey. Transcribes admissions only.
- Radford. Poor House Committee. 'Minutes of the Radford Poor House Committee Meetings, 22nd December 1834 to 23rd May 1837', transcribed by H. Mills, Nottinghamshire Family History Soc., Miscellany, 4 (Records Ser., 105) (Nottingham, The Soc., 1996), 63-70.
- Robinson, A. 'The Nature of Poor Relief in Tudor and Stuart Nottinghamshire, 1590-1642: Making Use of Parish and County Documents', NH, no. 48 (1992), 8-15.
- Roworth, W. Observations on the Administration of the New Poor Law, in Nottingham: Illustrated by Well Authenticated Cases of Refusal of Relief, and Inadequate Attention to the Pressing Necessities of the Poor. Groombridge, 1840. 172 p.
- Russell, J. W. Basford Guardians, 1815-1930: Records and Recollections. Nottingham, [privately published, 1930]. 65 p., ill.
- Smith, R. J. 'The Relief of Urban Poverty Outside the Poor Law, 1800-1850: A Study of Nottingham', Midland History, 2 (1974), [215]-224.
- Smith, Susanna. The Workshouse, Southwell, National Trust (2002)
- Stringer, K., ed. Settlement Certificates, Examinations and Removal Orders (1696 to 1863) Appertaining to Nottinghamshire (Nottinghamshire Family History Society Records Ser. 43). West Bridgford, 1985. 2 v.
- Tate, W. E. `An Attempt to Trace the Influence of 18th Century Political Events Upon the Condition of the Poor in a Nottinghamshire Village', Transactions of the Thoroton Society, 34 (1930), [53]-[59] (Sutton Bonnington)
- Whelan, T. Asylum. [n.p., privately published], 1987. 48 p., ill.
- Wileman, Derek H. Southwell Workhouse Volunteer Research Group, ‘William Clarke(e) 1843-1884 and Ann Tinley 1842-1927: Their stories at Southwell, Halam and Doncaster Deaf and Dumb Institution.’, Nottinghamshire Historian, 81 Autumn/Winter 2008