For two centuries, the shadow of the workhouse hung over Britain.
The recourse of only the most desperate, dark and terrible tales of
malnutrition, misery, mistreatment and murder ran like wildfire
through the poorer classes, who lived in terror of being forced
inside the institution's towering walls. This book contains 365
incredible tales of fires, drownings, explosions and disasters,
infamous scandals such as the Andover affair - where inmates were
forced to eat the bones they were supposed to be crushing to ward
off starvation - and sickening tales of abuse, assault,
bodysnatching, poisonings, post mortems and murder. Accompanied by
70 rare and wonderful illustrations, this book will thrill,
fascinate, sadden and unnerve in equal measure. DID YOU KNOW? In
the early hours of 31 August 1888, the mutilated body of Mary Ann
Nichols - the first generally accepted victim of Jack the Ripper -
was discovered in Buck's Row, Whitechapel, just a little way from
the Whitechapel workhouse infirmary. Nichols, aged forty-two at her
death, had been a regular habituee of London's workhouses. On 30
May 1896, at the age of seven, future Hollywood star Charlie
Chaplin entered the Newington workhouse in south London, together
with his mother, Hannah, and his older half-brother Sydney. On 19
March 1834 a revolt took place amongst the juvenile female paupers
of St Margaret's workhouse, Westminster. A young man named Speed,
appointed as their superintendent, provoked their wrath by his
alleged tyrannical behaviour. He was unmercifully thrashed by the
girls who tore his clothes nearly off his back and beat him until
his cries raised the alarm and the police were sent for to quell
the disturbance.
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