Voices from the Workhouse Voices from the Workhouse

Voices from the Workhouse

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Publisher Description

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 or through some other connection with the institution. Using a wide variety of sources — letters, poems, graffiti, autobiography, official reports, testimony at official inquiries, and oral history, Peter Higginbotham creates a vivid portrait of what really went on behind the doors of the workhouse — all the sights, sounds and smells of the place, and the effect it had on those whose lives it touched. Was the workhouse the cruel and inhospitable place as which it's often presented, or was there more to it than that? This book lets those who knew the place provide the answer.

GENRE
History
RELEASED
2012
1 October
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
192
Pages
PUBLISHER
The History Press
SELLER
Faber and Faber
SIZE
5.8
MB
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