Workhouse: The People, the Places, the Life Behind Doors by Simon Fowler

Workhouse: The People, the Places, the Life Behind Doors

Simon Fowler

240 pages first pub 2007 (editions)

nonfiction history informative medium-paced
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This popular history conducts a full tour of the workhouse from 1696 to 1948, interweaving a wealth of anecdote and allusion from criminal and official records, and literature as well as personal accounts of inmates and staff. The book also provid...

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