#629 “Please, Sir, I Want Some More": The Truth About Victorian Workhouses

English Learning for Curious Minds by Leonardo English

Aug 28, 202622:37Education

Charles Dickens made the Victorian workhouse famous, but the reality behind Oliver Twist was even worse than fiction. This episode tells how workhouses treated Britain’s poorest people, and how pensions and the welfare s...

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