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Voices from the Workhouse

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Description for Voices from the Workhouse Paperback. The real inside story of the workhouse in the words of those who experienced the institution at first hand. A wide variety of sources - letters, poems, graffiti, autobiography, official testimonies and oral history - is used to create a vivid portrait of what really went on behind the doors of the workhouse. Num Pages: 224 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; JFFA; WQH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 155 x 15. Weight in Grams: 352.

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 ... Read more

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Product Details

Publisher
The History Press Ltd
Number of pages
224
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Stroud, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780752467498
SKU
V9780752467498
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Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-10

About Peter Higginbotham
PETER HIGGINBOTHAM, who lives in Yorkshire, runs the website www.workhouses.org.uk. An expert on the subject of many years’ standing, his previous titles include The Workhouse Cookbook, Life in a Victorian Workhouse, Workhouses of the North and Workhouses of the Midlands and Voices of the Workhouse.

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