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Everyone has heard of the workhouse. But exactly what was it Who went there And how did an institution so universally hated come to be set up This title tells the story from its first beginnings in Elizabethan times until the final demise of "the union" in the 1940s.

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Although nearly 90% of the population of Great Britain remained civilians throughout the war, or for a large part of it, their story has so far largely gone untold.