Non-Boring History

Non-Boring History

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Non-Boring History
Non-Boring History
The Workhouse Effect

The Workhouse Effect

ANNETTE TELLS TALES People would rather die than go there. That was their point. But what if you entered one anyway?

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Small boys in uniform
The boys of Crumpsall Workhouse, Manchester, England, 1895. By the time this photo was taken, it was sixty years after the Poor Law Amendment Act had created what we might call modern workhouses. Thi…

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