Synopsis
The workhouse
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Review
"Excellent... Longmate's achievement in this moving history, like Henry Mayhew's in London Labour and the London Poor, has been to record the experiences of people who, friendless and despairing, otherwise left few traces of themselves behind" (Matt Shinn New Statesman)
"Norman Longmate has a reputation for careful research among original documents and a lively sense of anecdote, and this history of the Victorian workhouse amply demonstrates both qualities" (The Times)
"It is a strength of Norman Longmate's finely researched book that it is filled with such human reminders that the people who lived out meagre lives behind the high walls were living beings" (Spectator)
Book Description
'A readable and impressively-researched history of the workhouse...comprehensive and moving' Punch
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