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    LIFE IN THE WORKHOUSE

    Sep 03, 2020 2 minutes

    One of the biggest changes to the lives of the poor took place in 1834, when, faced with the return of unemployed or injured servicemen from the Napoleonic Wars and a national poor relief bill that had quadrupled between 1795 and 1815 – from £2 million to

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