The English Workhouse system dated back in a recognisable form to the seventeenth century, but is probably most associated with the eighteenth and nineteenth-centuries, including through Dickens' critical portrayal in Oliver Twist (serial 1837-8, novel 1839). However, though modified the workhouse system in many respects was still in being during the first three decades of… Continue reading New Article: Walter Greenwood’s Workhouse Memories (1933-1967)