A Victorian Workhouse - Lives of the Paupers

Many individuals heartbreakingly fell into the poverty trap, created by the new poor law of 1834, desperate individuals who would never live outside the workhouse again. Any "Paupers" unfortunate enough to die within the workhouse, could find themselves sold to Cambridge University, their bodies used to train medical students. Even in death the Paupers were owned by the workhouse. Read their story.