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508. Six True Crime Stories from Victorian England, Told by My Dad

Luke's ENGLISH Podcast - Learn British English with Luke Thompson

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Prison Ships - What Was the Name Again?

Elizabeth Broktson and Chorus Windosmasher were sent to a house of correction in Warwick. The idea was that these people ought to work, put them to work, and then they will lead a better life. They did some horrible jobs like breaking up stones for building material or mashing up bones,. And there were also treadmills in the house of correction. If you were sent with hard labor, you would have to go into the treadmill and walk around the treadmill sometimes for 10 hours a day.

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