I liked this one, mainly because it demonstrated that not all our ancestors were nice people and that when you go digging around in the past you may find things you don't like.
The Blean workhouse story seemed familiar and it took me a while to realise that I had actually read about this before, in a book about workhouses. William Dunbar appeared to be a most unpleasant man and took his workhouse duties lightly, to put it politely. He was forced to resign, an unusual step for those times, but there was a suggestion in the book that the workhouse master had jumped on the opportunity presented because of long standing animosity between the two men.
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