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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

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

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

A classic tale for Charles Dickens’ Birthday.
After Oliver Twist asks nasty Mr Bumble for more food, he has to flee the workhouse for the streets of London. Here he meets the Artful Dodger, who leads him to Fagin and his gang of pickpockets.
https://t.co/M16rUB4yGf

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2018-02-07

Chris spent 30 days in the workhouse

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2017-02-23

Hard labour in Clerkenwell prison: oakum picking (unravelling old rope) was also done by workhouse inmates (from archives)

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2016-11-01