The Forgotten Welfare State: How the Dissolution of Monasteries Devastated the Poor and Sick

Renaissance English History Podcast: A Show About the Tudors by Heather Teysko

Before Henry VIII, if you were sick, old, or starving in England, there was a place you could go. Monasteries ran almshouses, hospitals, free lodging for travelers, even schools for poor kids, all as a normal, unglamorou...View more