haven't really got anything planned today. The lecture ont eh workhouse was very interesting, the woman had just published a book
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I'm surprised Amazon have copies as she was still waiting for hers and couldn't sell us any.
She seems to have been the first to realise that the old workhouse off Tottenham Court Rd was the one in Oliver Twist. Dickens lived just a block away but nobody had spotted this because all the maps were misleading and the streets had changed names. But once she realised it, she found a man called Bill Sykes living over the road, there was a business called Goodge and Marnie (=Scrooge and Marley) round the corner and so on.
Also, their house was built on a tiny sliver of land (a parish boundary was their back wall) so no room for a garden, so they had two WCs inside, which was pretty radical for 1820 or so.