Episode 2 - Eastville Workhouse

03/09/2016 46 min
Episode 2 - Eastville Workhouse

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Episode Synopsis

In this week's episode I met with Roger Ball of the Bristol Radical History Group to discuss the history of Eastville Workhouse. What kind of burial could a Victorian pauper expect? What were the ideas and ideologies behind the workhouses? And how far have attitudes towards poverty changed since the Victorian era?

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