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

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

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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 state finally replaced
them.

Oliver Twist and the image of hunger in workhouses

Early poor relief and rising costs during the Industrial
Revolution

1832 Royal Commission and 1834 Act creating national
workhouses

The harsh idea of less eligibility as a warning

Who ended up in workhouses: the elderly, sick children, and
women

Small meals, family separation, and hard work like treadmills

Andover scandal: starving people and an abusive, drunken
master

Charlie Chaplin's childhood in the workhouse

Reforms pensions: National Insurance and 1948 changes

Ongoing debates about welfare and supporting vulnerable
people

Full interactive transcript, subtitles and key vocabulary available
on the
website: https://www.leonardoenglish.com/podcasts/victorian-workhouses

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