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The Magdalene Laundries: Social Welfare or Womens' Prisons?
Manage episode 279140763 series 2833734
This week Siouxsie Q and Sovereign take a look at Magdalene Laundries, workhouses set up by the Catholic church to look after extraneous women; those who fell pregnant, were indigent, in debt or mentally ill at the turn of the twentieth century. These house came into the spotlight at the turn of the twenty first century when mass graves were discovered under many of them....
75 episodes
Manage episode 279140763 series 2833734
This week Siouxsie Q and Sovereign take a look at Magdalene Laundries, workhouses set up by the Catholic church to look after extraneous women; those who fell pregnant, were indigent, in debt or mentally ill at the turn of the twentieth century. These house came into the spotlight at the turn of the twenty first century when mass graves were discovered under many of them....
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