Life in a Victorian Workhouse 9781841653389

Life in a Victorian School 9780750956192

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A Grim Almanac of the Workhouse 9780752492308

For two centuries, the shadow of the workhouse hung over Britain. The recourse of only the most desperate, dark, and ter

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Prison Life In Victorian England 0752442554, 9780752442556

Find out what life in prison was really like for the Victorian convict and prisoner, and also for the prison officers wh

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Life in the Victorian Hospital 0752448048, 9780752448046

Throughout the Victorian period, life-threatening diseases were no respecter of class, affecting rich and poor alike. Ho

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Pauper Voices, Public Opinion and Workhouse Reform in Mid-Victorian England: Bearing Witness [1st ed.] 9783030478384, 9783030478391

This book represents the first attempt to identify and describe a workhouse reform ‘movement’ in mid- to late-nineteenth

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Hatred and Civility: The Antisocial Life in Victorian England 9780231503907

To understand hatred and civility in today's world, argues Christopher Lane, we should start with Victorian fiction

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The Workhouse: The People, The Places, The Life Behind Doors 9781473840843

'The stories of those who lived in the shadow of the workhouse' During the nineteenth century the workhouse c

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From Workhouse to Westminster 9781507557051

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Workhouse Characters: And Other Sketches of the Life of the Poor (Classic Reprint) 133132243X, 9781331322436

Excerpt from Workhouse Characters: And Other Sketches of the Life of the Poor Many humane reforms and regulations for t

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Life in 19th Century Paris: A Collection of Victorian Paris Blog Posts

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