SO YOU RECKON YOU'VE GOT A TOUGH LIFE, HUH?
Can’t find a decent job? Living on state benefits ( Welfare )? Having a hard time making ends meet? Feel hard done by, ‘cos nobody care about your plight? Well, I hate to sound callous, but that’s just tough! It’s tough ‘cos one can bet the farm that for sheer poverty and want; for society’s disregard of your welfare, you’re having it a damned sight better than anyone that you’ll read about in this series of posts about the 19 th century London poor. Actually, reading about the sheer grind of... Sign in to see full entry.