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Look back at hard times David Sandhu visits a newly renovated workhouse that stands in poignant contrast to the genteel beauty of the surrounding town
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`The faces were depressed and subdued, and wanted colour. There
were weird old women, all skeleton within, all bonnet and cloak
without, continually wiping their eyes with dirty dusters of pocket-
handkerchiefs; and there were ugly old crones, both male and female,
with a ghastly kind of contentment. It was the dragon, pauperism, in
a very weak and impotent condition; toothless, fangless, drawing his
breath heavily enough, and hardly worth chaining up."
Thus Charles Dickens described ...
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Victorian Christmas at the National Trust's Southwell workhouse
The Independent - London
; Camilla Rix, nine, recreating the atmosphere of a Victorian Christmas yesterday at the National Trust's Southwell workhouse, Nottinghamshire David Jones
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History in costly fairy-tale garb The National Trust should stop being so smug and extravagant, argues Paula Weid eger
The Independent - London
; The National Trust is 100 years old today. Let me join in the happy birthday chorus - it is one of England's most remarkable 20th- century success stories - but let me not stop there. Although the people managing the National Trust and their passi onate defenders refuse to believe it, it is
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History in costly fairy-tale garbThe National Trust should stop being so smug and extravagant, argues Paula Weid eger
The Independent - London
; The National Trust is 100 years old today. Let me join in the happy birthday chorus - it is one of England's most remarkable 20th-century success stories - but let me not stop there. Although the people managing the National Trust and their passi onate defenders refuse to believe it, it is possible
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 "Coventry Evening Telegraph (England)")
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National Trust mourns a stalwart; BADDESLEY CLINTON BURIAL FOR MAN WHO WAS EVER TO THE MANOR DRAWN.(News)
Coventry Evening Telegraph (England)
; ONE of Warwickshire's most distinguished historians is to be buried near the National Trust property which was closest to his heart. Bachelor Charles Lines, who died on Monday at the age of 87, will be buried in the churchyard of St Michael's church, not far from the stately home in Baddesley
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 "The Independent (London, England)")
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The National Trust's aristocratic secret: dust.(Comment)
The Independent (London, England)
; ... the secret of long life. Not that the National Trust itself is entirely sure about the secret of long life - it was also in the news last week because it had to decide whether ancient dusty books in ancient dusty National Trust houses should be dusted or not ...
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