I took myself out into the cool and overcast day for a nice fag. I enjoyed the smoke and was still thinking lucidly.
I want to say one more thing about my recent thoughts. This is an explanation and not an apology. I am interested in the history of the common folk and have spent many years studying it for myself. I have read various histories of the poor law system. I have read histories of particular workhouses (Epping, Bromley (Kent) and Greenwich to name a few). I have consulted original workhouse records, including those of the Boards of Guardians and of individual inmates. I know my subject, and cannot help but draw my own conclusions based on facts. Facts. Facts and not beliefs. The facts speak for themselves with tragic eloquence.
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