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Language: en
Pages: 517
Pages: 517
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-03-01 - Publisher: The History Press
This fascinating, fully illustrated volume is the definitive guide to every aspect of the workhouse and of the poor relief system in which it played a pivotal p
Language: en
Pages: 334
Pages: 334
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-10-01 - Publisher: The History Press
Voices from the Workhouse tells the real inside story of the workhouse - in the words of those who experienced the institution at first hand, either as inmates
Language: en
Pages: 160
Pages: 160
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-05-30 - Publisher: The History Press
What was it like in a Victorian Workhouse? Was the food really as bad as we imagine? Take a step back in time with Alan Gallop and ask yourself if you could hav
Language: en
Pages: 330
Pages: 330
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-02-01 - Publisher: The History Press
For two centuries, the shadow of the workhouse hung over Britain. The recourse of only the most desperate, dark and terrible tales of malnutrition, misery, mist
Language: en
Pages: 191
Pages: 191
Type: BOOK - Published: 2008 - Publisher: History Publishing Group
This wonderfully evocative read explores every aspect of life - and diet - in the workhouse. Including a complete reprint of the 1901 Manual of Workhouse Cooker