Secrets from the Workhouse

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Posted on 04 July 2013

Alannah Tomkins, Senior Lecturer in History, RI Humanities, has appeared on the ITV History programme 'Secrets from the Workhouse'.  She filmed conversations with Keira Chaplin, the granddaughter of Charlie Chaplin, in and around the surviving buildings of the Lambeth workhouse. 

Charlie was admitted to the Lambeth institution in the spring of 1896 with his mother Hannah and brother Sydney.  He later reflected on his experiences in his autobiography. Ironically the admissions block of the workhouse is now home to a cinema museum.  

Alannah discussed both the family's time both in Lambeth and Hannah's later experience of admission to a lunatic asylum. 

Part one of the programme was screened this week and part two is scheduled for transmission on 2 July.

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