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Re: 'Secrets from the Workhouse' tv programme
« Reply #18 on: Friday 28 June 13 23:20 BST (UK) »
I found it quite uncomfortable when Brian Cox started ranting about the injustice of his ancestor being labelled a malingerer, as though it was the researcher's fault.

Yes I did too - the researcher didn't quite know what to say to him, I thought it was embarrassing behaviour.

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Re: 'Secrets from the Workhouse' tv programme
« Reply #19 on: Friday 28 June 13 23:33 BST (UK) »
Was it a bit ,
tv luvvies shocked by British working class social history ?
 Oh gosh !  ;)

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« Reply #20 on: Friday 28 June 13 23:36 BST (UK) »
Was it a bit ,
tv luvvies shocked by British working class social history ?
 Oh gosh !  ;)

Just a bit!! 
I'm not young enough to know everything.


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Re: 'Secrets from the Workhouse' tv programme
« Reply #21 on: Friday 28 June 13 23:40 BST (UK) »
Was it a bit ,
tv luvvies shocked by British working class social history ?
 Oh gosh !  ;)

Just a bit!!

Absolutely!  I really felt for the researcher.  I doubt whether she'd ever seen such a reaction, and wonder if he'd have blasted off like that if there hadn't been a camera present  ;)
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Re: 'Secrets from the Workhouse' tv programme
« Reply #22 on: Saturday 29 June 13 07:31 BST (UK) »
I found it quite uncomfortable when Brian Cox started ranting about the injustice of his ancestor being labelled a malingerer, as though it was the researcher's fault.

Yes I did too - the researcher didn't quite know what to say to him, I thought it was embarrassing behaviour.


And the Oscar goes to .....Brian Cox  ;D
Have to agree it was a cringe worthy moment. Poor lady from the Mitchell Library looked stunned and uncomfortable.

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Re: 'Secrets from the Workhouse' tv programme
« Reply #23 on: Saturday 29 June 13 11:39 BST (UK) »
And the Oscar goes to .....Brian Cox  ;D
Have to agree it was a cringe worthy moment. Poor lady from the Mitchell Library looked stunned and uncomfortable.

Must admit I got a bit worked up too BUT it was the way he was treating that original index book that was getting to me  :-X ^^^

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Re: 'Secrets from the Workhouse' tv programme
« Reply #24 on: Saturday 29 June 13 16:24 BST (UK) »
Hi all,
May I recommend the following book:-
A Grim Almanac of the Workhouse by Peter HIGGINBOTHAM, ISBN 978-0-7524-8739-7.
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Re: 'Secrets from the Workhouse' tv programme
« Reply #25 on: Sunday 30 June 13 20:01 BST (UK) »
And the Oscar goes to .....Brian Cox  ;D
Have to agree it was a cringe worthy moment. Poor lady from the Mitchell Library looked stunned and uncomfortable.

Must admit I got a bit worked up too BUT it was the way he was treating that original index book that was getting to me  :-X ^^^

I thought he got quite righteously annoyed about the way people had been treated, and made it clear that he was not directing his anger at the researcher.  I think she was embarrassed by the camera (as indeed I would be in similar circumstances) and not by him.

To find one of my ancestors living on a staircase  >:( >:( >:( in a documented return would have left me feeling sick to my stomach as well.  Let alone people making judgements on folk in the workhouse because they felt they were undeserving poor.


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Re: 'Secrets from the Workhouse' tv programme
« Reply #26 on: Monday 01 July 13 08:39 BST (UK) »
I thought he got quite righteously annoyed about the way people had been treated, and made it clear that he was not directing his anger at the researcher.  I think she was embarrassed by the camera (as indeed I would be in similar circumstances) and not by him.

To find one of my ancestors living on a staircase  >:( >:( >:( in a documented return would have left me feeling sick to my stomach as well.  Let alone people making judgements on folk in the workhouse because they felt they were undeserving poor.

His performance came across, to me anyway, as pure ham......... and I found myself more annoyed at the contempt with which he was treating precious records.

Having read a number of these Poor Law Applications reports for my own ancestors,the regime and times were brutal but at least they did something which they never did for the starving in Ireland during the worst years of the Famine.

However to quote LP Hartley " The past is a foreign country they do things differently there"