Children's Homes Av Peter Higginbotham

<p><b>This fascinating, fully illustrated volume is the definitive guide to every aspect of the workhouse and of the poor relief system in which it played a pivotal part. </b>Compiled by Peter Higginbotham, one of Britain¿s best-known...

<p><b><i>Voices from the Workhouse</i> 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....

A beautifully illustrated A-Z of the workhouses of the North of England.

<p><b>For two centuries, the shadow of the workhouse hung over Britain. </b>The recourse of only the most desperate, dark and terrible tales of malnutrition, misery, mistreatment and murder ran like wildfire through the poorer classes,...