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#629 | “Please, Sir, I Want Some More": The Truth About Victorian Workhouses
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✨ Back To School Sale - Save 25% - https://dripl.ink/MUYZH Ends 23:59, Sunday 6th September. -- Charles Dickens made the Victorian workhouse famous, but the reality behind Oliver Twist was even worse than fiction. This episode tells how workhouses treated Britain’s poorest people, and how pensions and the welfare state finally replaced them. Oliver Twist and the image of hunger in workhouses Early poor relief and rising costs during the Industrial Revolution 1832 Royal Commission and 1834 Act creating national workhouses The harsh idea of less eligibility as a warn...
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