Voices from the Workhouse

Voices from the Workhouse
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Publisher : The History Press
Total Pages : 325
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ISBN-10 : 9780752477176
ISBN-13 : 075247717X
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Book Synopsis Voices from the Workhouse by : Peter Higginbotham

Download or read book Voices from the Workhouse written by Peter Higginbotham and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2012-10-01 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.


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