Author: Peter Higginbotham

Our image of workhouses has often been coloured by the writings of authors such as Charles Dickens. But what was the reality? Where exactly were al...

What image does the word orphanage conjure up in your mind? A sunny scene of carefree children at play in the grounds of a large ivy-clad house? ...

The word 'workhouse' has a grim resonance even today, conjuring up a vision of the darker side of Victorian Britain. Almost every town had at least...

This fascinating, fully illustrated volume is the definitive guide to every aspect of the workhouse and of the poor relief system in which it playe...

This fascinating, fully illustrated volume is the definitive guide to every aspect of the workhouse and of the poor relief system in which it playe...

This copiously illustrated book takes the lid off the real story of prison food. Including the full text of an original prison cookery manual compi...

Voices from the Workhouse tells the real inside story of the workhouse - in the words of those who experienced the institution at first hand, eithe...

For two centuries, the shadow of the workhouse hung over Britain. The recourse of only the most desperate, dark and terrible tales of malnutrition,...