By Lesley Hulonce This is the second part of a post which appeared on Tuesday, 10 May. As Edward Ostler reported to the 1834 Royal Commission, ‘humanity dictates that the inmates of a workhouse should be fed quite as well as a labourer’s family’, and the food, whilst wholesome, should be ‘of the plainest description’. Ostler described the pre-1834 diet in most workhouses as meat, broth and pea soup, each for two days, with fish on the seventh day. No amounts were given, but … Continue reading Workhouse Diets: Paucity or Plenty? [Part II]
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