Voices from the Workhouse - Brossura

Higginbotham, Peter

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ISBN 10: 0752467492 ISBN 13: 9780752467498

Casa editrice: The History Press, 2012

Riassunto

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.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

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.

Product Description:

Book by Higginbotham Peter

Su questa edizione

• Editore: The History Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0752467492
• ISBN 13: 9780752467498
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 224