New Year’s Day in the Bedminster workhouse

| | imported blog post Tuesday January 01, 2013 17:13 by Eugene Byrne

Personally I reckon that it’s high time the political right started calling for the return of the workhouse. I’ll write you the script: First, you get some think-tank to source and publish “research” that shows that by late Victorian times, the parish workhouse wasn’t nearly as awful as Dickens portrayed it a generation earlier. Then [...]