How Victorians Survived the Brutal Workhouse (Breaking Rock for Food)

Victorians workhouses forced men to break stone for food and a bed for night. Find out, in this eyewitness report by an undercover Victorian journalist, how homeless men tramped many miles night after night from one workhouse to the next just to find more work, terrible food and hard plank beds to sleep on.

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Credits: Narration - markmanningmedia.com
CC BY - Person Looking Through Aventine Keyhole By Videvo.com; Group of Plaistow children, Men sitting on long benches picking oakum a guard raises his hand, Policeman approaches a ragged woman in a London park, Sanitary law and practice a handbook for students of public health and others, The Field Lane Refuge, The Society of Friends' soup-kitchen by Wellcome Collection
CC BY-SA - Gloucester docks by Chris Allen via geograph.org; Whitminster name sign detail by Jaggery via geograph.org; Pencil - un mendiant by J'aimelart;

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