#workhouses — Public Fediverse posts

Today's poem:

Christmas Day In the Workhouse
- by George Robert Sims

https://www.tumblr.com/ukdamo/778347220788494336/christmas-day-in-the-workhouse?source=share

#poverty #deprivation #GeorgeRobertSims #workhouses #SocialCommentary #SocialInjustice #inequality #PiousSentiment

Today's poem:

Christmas Day In the Workhouse
- by George Robert Sims

https://www.tumblr.com/ukdamo/778347220788494336/christmas-day-in-the-workhouse?source=share

#poverty #deprivation #GeorgeRobertSims #workhouses #SocialCommentary #SocialInjustice #inequality #PiousSentiment

Today's poem:

Christmas Day In the Workhouse
- by George Robert Sims

https://www.tumblr.com/ukdamo/778347220788494336/christmas-day-in-the-workhouse?source=share

#poverty #deprivation #GeorgeRobertSims #workhouses #SocialCommentary #SocialInjustice #inequality #PiousSentiment

If the Tories really cared about mental health, they’d stop trying to score cheap points | Micha Frazer-Carroll | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/mar/22/tories-cared-mental-health-mel-stride

#Tories
#MentalHealth
#Stride
#Benefits
#WarOnDisabled
#WarOnTheIll
#WarOnThePoor
#WarOnTheMentallyIll
#WarOnTheChronicallyIll
#WorkRelatedStress
#BadJobs
#BackToWork
#Jobcentres
#TherapistsAtJobcentres
#Workfare
#Workhouses
#CBT
#Medicines
#RecoveryInTheBin
#Poverty
#Homelesness
#Austerity

In an online #WDYTYA Magazine article, #workhouse expert Peter Higginbotham explains what a workhouse infirmary was, who was treated there, and how to find the records in which your ancestors (or #OnePlaceStudy residents) might be found: https://www.whodoyouthinkyouaremagazine.com/tutorials/workhouse-infirmary/

#Genealogy #FamilyHistory #LocalHistory #OnePlaceStudies #Workhouses