Workhouses

On Saturday, Dickens came to the Strand – in the ambitious form of Dickensfest! ~ an event co-organised by The Centre for Life-Writing Research at King’s (where Strandlines lives) and Westminster Archives. Many thanks to  Ruth Richardson and Judith Bottomley for inspiration and organisation. Read more »

The petition to save the Cleveland Street Workhouse will be submitted to the Government this THURSDAY, and therefore needs as many signatures as possible. 

Please help by asking family, friends and colleagues who might be interested in the saving the Workhouse to sign the petition on the following website: http://bit.ly/fZCI3V 

If you're on Twitter or any other social networking site like Facebook, please tweet the following message urging family, friends and colleagues to sign up: 
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The Strand Union Workhouse, Cleveland Street Read more »