

Read the workhouse site-visit reports of reform campaigner Joseph Rowntree and and those of the magazine contributor Emma Brewer.
New! Some of my introductory talks are now on my YouTube Channel
The Victorian Slum: Common Lodging Houses and Model Dwellings
Know about workhouses? — try the Workhouse Quiz.
For information on 1000s of children's homes, orphanages, reformatories, industrial schools, training ships etc. visit www.childrenshomes.org.uk
Explore a workhouse — take the Workhouse Tour!
Jeremy Corbyn's great-great-grandfather was the despotic master of the Farnham workhouse.
An 1861 survey detailed all 14,216 adult workhouse inmates in England & Wales resident for over five years. All the names can be viewed via a link in the 'Inmates' section towards the end of each union's individual page.


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