60-Second Seminar with Dr Joseph Harley - Workhouses
Joseph explains that our image of a typical ‘workhouse’ for the poor is skewed by Dickens’ Oliver Twist and that, in the pre-Victorian era, they were completely different to what we might expect.
Joseph explains that our image of a typical ‘workhouse’ for the poor is skewed by Dickens’ Oliver Twist and that, in the pre-Victorian era, they were completely different to what we might expect.