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The Victorians, Part 1 of 2

Short History Of...

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Reform, Morality, and the Workhouse

From the 1832 Reform Act to Victorian moral views on poverty, the 1834 Poor Law and brutal workhouses are examined alongside cultural critiques by Dickens and contemporaries.

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