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National Trust spending pounds 4.5m to restore workhouse that heralded a grim regime
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THE NATIONAL Trust, guard-ian of Britain's great houses and
gracious aristocratic heritage, is spending millions of pounds
restoring a workhouse, the 19th-century's most potent symbol of
abject poverty and social failure.
The workhouse at Southwell, Nottinghamshire, is not only the best-
preserved example of the 600 quasi-prisons for the poor that once
covered the land, and which Dickens immortalised in Oliver Twist; it
was the early model for the harsh workhouse regime, which ensured...
