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Awards and Recognition for the Workhouse Web Site

"This Web site is a sometimes startling and profoundly moving social document which illuminates an area of working class history that could easily be forgotten. It is packed with information about all aspects of workhouse history in Britain and Ireland, ranging from the 14th to the 20th century."
"...an astonishingly detailed exploration of the nineteenth-century workhouse."
"...a wonderful online resource"
"A very comprehensive site on the history of the workhouse and the people involved. Contains excellent original documentation and graphics. Loads of general history that is relevant to that period too."

"A remarkably comprehensive site... detailed and beautifully presented..."

The Good Web Guide to Genealogy by Caroline Peacock

"A comprehensive guide to the workhouse and the laws relating to it..."

The Genealogist's Internet by Peter Christian

"...impressively comprehensive and accessible."

"Brilliant... Fantastic...."

Practical Family History (April 2006) - the 100 most useful websites. Two separate entries - main site and training ships section.

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