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…
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Clerkenwell’s workhouses were notorious dens of ‘squalid poverty and meanness’. Historian Peter Higginbotham tells the tale of these grim institutions…