
Bleak houses | Workhouses
November 13, 2013 12:47 pm Leave your thoughtsClerkenwell’s workhouses were notorious dens of ‘squalid poverty and meanness’. Historian Peter Higginbotham tells the tale of these grim institutions…
Clerkenwell’s workhouses were notorious dens of ‘squalid poverty and meanness’. Historian Peter Higginbotham tells the tale of these grim institutions…