Three celebrities bravely trace their ancestors experiences in the Victorian workhouse. Well worth watching, if you want to be reminded of how bad life was for the majority of people just over a century ago. What amazes me, is how deftly the program disappears the political struggles that took place in order to rectify these awful conditions, brushing over them with words like the thinking changed’! These kinds of conditions are beginning to return because people have lost all grasp of collective political action.

The other issue that stands out, is the way women are punished for having “illegitimate” children; this is not challenged in the program, which shows how entrenched beliefs about the immorality of infidelity are. Actually, in natural law, infidelity, especially female infidelity is a highly moral act, by selecting the best mate she can, a female insures the future health of her species.

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