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Winter is coming can’t help but feel I’m living a real life version of scrooge ? Are there no workhouses mental institutions

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2022-10-21

The workhouse at Bahaghs, in Kerry, Ireland, is even more gloomy inside than out. And that’s saying a lot. Nonetheless, I sat and drew in the mud. As stated in my last post, it’s my belief that my ancestors lived here for a few years before emigrating in 1884.

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2022-08-19

In 1831, Hanwell Asylum for pauper lunatics in London opened; managed by William Ellis who was revolutionary in improving how psychological disorders were treated. He introduced therapeutic methods & ended Workhouse barbarism. Suicide rates decreased & recovery rates increased.

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2022-08-09

"And I'll always remember how fear shook the wealthy
Like thieves who have just been caught out in their crime
But we, who had known only war and the workhouse
Rejoiced, as a new world was born at that time"

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2022-03-16

Adopt this gem for 15 dollars or else she will be sent to the workhouse to earn money for her family :(
When you adopt her, you also get a free drawing of a weapon of your choice for her!

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2021-05-18

Francis Sibson created extraordinary drawings. For a few we can piece together their Mary Ann Gathercole died of a lung condition aged 34. Her husband Charles managed to keep their four kids out of the workhouse and keep the family together

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2021-04-13

Have you entered our competition based on our Voices collection? We're looking for stories of 400-450 words inspired by our letters. Author Sharon Gosling will join us to judge our 3 age categories, https://t.co/acK0At1fK6

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2020-10-05

"#Old Jimmy Spray" (c.1806-1888) c.1860-70. "..the only thing of interest about him [!].. that he was taken from the Workshouse as a that he was bought from the !

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2020-10-01

Lucy Burns dedicated her life to women's suffrage. She helped organize the 1913 parade in DC. She picketed the White House, was arrested and sentenced to 6 months in a workhouse. She went on hunger strikes & was force fed. https://t.co/hg1v2LUAbM

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2020-08-22

This week's Workhouse Network blog is now live; today we are discussing all the things we are up to as the exhibition approaches!

https://t.co/gR8mqoiYSe

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2020-08-14

If you missed it, show is now on catch-up. It features exhibition designer, Rebecca Simpson, talking to about designing 'Childhood in Dickensian London' & digitising a rare map of workhouses https://t.co/y9r89wkmM7

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2020-04-16

These sepia photographs show medical staff (likely from Extons Road Workhouse) around 1890 - before we were fortunate enough to have a National Health Service. Thank you to all front line workers, past and present.

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2020-04-10

We won't lie, it was ...challenging... to find an image for from home. BUT we did it. Behold this 1st edition plan of Chichester workhouse. Bed & board in the workhouse usually entailed a day or more of picking oakum rope as payment.

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2020-03-23

to Charles Dickens, born 208 years ago today. Your insights into poverty and workhouses should always be in our minds as are never as safe and secure as they should be!

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2020-02-07

Jacob Rees-Mogg: "The Victorians knew how to run a country properly" - slums, the workhouse, exploitation and polution...The Rees-Mogg utopia!

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2019-10-13

In 1895 the Reverend Henry Collinson finally managed to persuade the Guardians to agree to install heating and hot water at Gressenhall He was not very happy when the scheme was put on hold. Hot water was finally installed in 1899.

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2019-09-11

Entry 483 | Victoria General - The Workhouse Children

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2019-08-23

I'm always excited for a new Pokémon but wowee the depressing victorian workhouse aesthetic is not what I was expecting, it's weirding me out that you send Pokémon out to work quite honestly

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2019-08-09

Animals were not allowed in Gressenhall Workhouse – but Schoolmaster Robert Bradfield secretly kept a dog in his room. The Master and Mr Bradfield argued about the dog and Mr Bradfield ‘used very improper language and behaviour’. The dog was removed from the workhouse

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2019-05-24