Babies, on the other hand, were not profitable. The workhouse gate clanged shut. It was a bitterly cold day and a harsh wind was whistling up Cleveland Street, in the Georgian suburbs of North London.

Instead, we, the masses, who are asking for more, just like Oliver, will be perceived as rebellious, removed from the ...

The parish of St Mary-in-the-Castle was then nearly all farmland with few people seeking relief, and it had a small workhouse at Baldslow. About 1820, number 137 Old London Road took over as the ...

Expelled from the workhouse for having had the temerity to ask for more gruel, Oliver is placed as an apprentice to an undertaker, but is mistreated and runs away to London. Here he meets the ...

I'll tell you. Yeah, for a penny. The workhouse is the last place you want to go. They deliberately make it bad. Bad food, bad clothes, bad beds. Any time today. Well, work of course! We start at ...