Tag: Workhouse History
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A Swansea Workhouse Story: How One Family Fell Into the Victorian Poor Law System
Victorian Swansea was a place of industry, migration, and hard labour — but also of deep precarity. While researching a recent commission, I uncovered a story that captures the reality of the Poor Law system in the mid–late 1800s. It is the story of one family, but it stands for thousands whose lives were shaped…