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Workhouses of Wales and the Welsh Borders
Language: en
Pages: 402
Authors: Peter Higginbotham
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2022-02-03 - Publisher: The History Press

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A survey in 1776 recorded almost 2,000 parish workhouses operating in England, while the number in Wales was just nineteen. The New Poor Law of 1834 proved equa
A Grim Almanac of the Workhouse
Language: en
Pages: 330
Authors: Peter Higginbotham
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-02-01 - Publisher: The History Press

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For two centuries, the shadow of the workhouse hung over Britain. The recourse of only the most desperate, dark and terrible tales of malnutrition, misery, mist
Voices from the Workhouse
Language: en
Pages: 334
Authors: Peter Higginbotham
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-10-01 - Publisher: The History Press

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Voices from the Workhouse tells the real inside story of the workhouse - in the words of those who experienced the institution at first hand, either as inmates
The Little Book of Wales
Language: en
Pages: 205
Authors: Revd Mark Lawson-Jones
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-05-01 - Publisher: The History Press

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Did You Know? Wales is the only nation in the United Kingdom not to be represented on the Union Jack. During the First World War, Cardiff was the largest coal p
The Little Book of Carmarthenshire
Language: en
Pages: 214
Authors: Russell Grigg
Categories: Reference
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-03-02 - Publisher: The History Press

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Fast-paced and fact-packed, this compendium revels in the history, places and people of Wales’ largest county. Carmarthenshire’s rich heritage is explored w