Of course, the workhouse system did not last forever. People like Charles Dickens wrote of the terrible conditions they saw, and philosophers and social scientists
An interesting book. My mum used to talk about tiger bay and the fun she had , I wish I could go there but like
In the main, workhouses were managed by boards of guardians. Initially, you had to be a landowner to run a workhouse, although this requirement was
The conditions in workhouses were usually just as bad as we imagine. However, this was not always the case. The earlier rural poorhouses were founded
Lovely romance with a strong storyline. I really enjoyed this book. I read a LOT of romance books and I get a bit fed up
In Cardiff in the 1960s, the police at Bute Street (Tiger Bay) station were part of the social fabric of the area. Everyone knew everyone
There were two types of punishment in use in workhouses, often used just for the (non-) crime of being poor. These are explicit and implicit
DIY as you’ve never known it! I was gripped right from the first page and laughed all the way through the book. Our hero, Horatio,
One night in 1860, in the dark, gloomy and dank Wharf Street police station in Tiger Bay, Cardiff were the usual array of destitute men,
Physics and history are both exercises in fact. Having become habituated to this in his engineering career, this was a natural transition for Ray: it
Young Margaret Casey had been in trouble all her very short life. Assaults, fighting, disorderly conduct and this before she was ten years of age
CERN was the most exciting part of Ray Noyes’ career. Formed in 1945, it brought the best of Europe’s engineers, physicists and mathematicians together to
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