Voices from the Workhouse

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 including 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.

Author: Peter Higginbotham
Publisher: History Press
Published: 12/01/2012
Pages: 224
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.10w x 0.50d
ISBN13: 9780752467498
ISBN10: 0752467492
BISAC Categories:
- History | Europe | Great Britain | General
- Social Science | Poverty & Homelessness
- History | Social History

About the Author
Peter Higginbotham runs the website workhouses.org.uk. His previous titles include Life in a Victorian Workhouse, The Workhouse Cookbook, The Workhouse Encyclopedia, Workhouses of the Midlands, and Workhouses of the North.