The Workhouse
- Published: 15 June 2003
- ISBN: 9780712606370
- Imprint: Pimlico
- Format: Trade Paperback
- Pages: 336
- RRP: $45.00
The Workhouse
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- Published: 15 June 2003
- ISBN: 9780712606370
- Imprint: Pimlico
- Format: Trade Paperback
- Pages: 336
- RRP: $45.00
Excellent... Longmate's achievement in this moving history, like Henry Mayhew's in London Labour and the London Poor, has been to record the experiences of people who, friendless and despairing, otherwise left few traces of themselves behind
Matt Shinn, New Statesman
Norman Longmate has a reputation for careful research among original documents and a lively sense of anecdote, and this history of the Victorian workhouse amply demonstrates both qualities
The Times
It is a strength of Norman Longmate's finely researched book that it is filled with such human reminders that the people who lived out meagre lives behind the high walls were living beings
Spectator