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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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The Sixth Story

The fifth story was called Why did Joseph Smith break a lamp in the market square? The welfare state didn't actually arrive for nearly another 100 years. So before the welfare state was set up, people apparently were desperate and they had to resort to even committing petty crimes so that they could be locked up but fed.

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