Even though the poor were provided with accommodation and (inadequate) food in the workhouse, the system bore hallmarks of slavery. Victorian writer Charles Dickens was a formidable critic of the ...
A former Leeds MP has said the growth of foodbanks in Britain marks a return to the Victorian workhouse. Speaking to the Star yesterday John Battle claimed that the parcelling out of food in the way ...
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