Many stories exist on life in the Victorian workhouse and consequently how bleak it would have been to have spent Christmas there. Using contemporary records Deborah talks about what Christmas in Kent workhouses could actually be like and reveals how it wasn't all doom and gloom.
Tickets: £5.50. Purchase tickets for all six Wigmore Lectures for £21.96.
Address: Wigmore Library, Fairview Avenue, Wigmore, Kent, ME8 0PX
The 6 lectures are as follows:
An 18th Century Entrepreneur: Sara Baker and Kentish Theatres - Wed 16/10/24
Estella’s Revenge: The Fearless Daughter of Great Expectations - Wed 20/11/24
Christmas in the Workhouse – Wed 18/12/24
Medway’s Lost Breweries - Wed 15/1/25
The Huguenot Lethieullier Family in Britain: Commerce and Culture 1605-1788 – Wed 19/2/25
Rochester Artist, Charles Spencelayh - Wed 19/3/25
Tickets: £5.50. Purchase tickets for all six Wigmore Lectures for £21.96.
Address: Wigmore Library, Fairview Avenue, Wigmore, Kent, ME8 0PX
The 6 lectures are as follows:
An 18th Century Entrepreneur: Sara Baker and Kentish Theatres - Wed 16/10/24
Estella’s Revenge: The Fearless Daughter of Great Expectations - Wed 20/11/24
Christmas in the Workhouse – Wed 18/12/24
Medway’s Lost Breweries - Wed 15/1/25
The Huguenot Lethieullier Family in Britain: Commerce and Culture 1605-1788 – Wed 19/2/25
Rochester Artist, Charles Spencelayh - Wed 19/3/25
