Huddersfield workhouse scandal (1848)

The Huddersfield workhouse scandal concerned the conditions in the workhouse at Huddersfield, England in 1848. On investigation the conditions were considered to be worse than those in Andover which had hit the headlines in Britain two years earlier.

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The Huddersfield workhouse scandal
Another article on the scandal
The history of the Huddersfield workhouse, maps, an 1881 Census, and the scandal

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