On the Road: First-hand accounts of visits to workhouse casual wards from Somerset to Yorkshire (1928-35)

Peter Higginbotham is a longstanding researcher and author on the workhouse and related institutions. As well as books such as ’The Workhouse Encyclopedia’, ’Voices from the Workhouse’ and ’A Grim Almanac of the Workhouse’, he is the author of the highly regarded website workhouses.org.uk. He has also contributed to TV programmes such as ’Who Do You Think You Are?’ and ’＂Heir Hunters’.