Over 1,000 women ended up in a Dutch state workhouse between 1886 and 1934. This was a place for vagrants, beggars and ...

At a site that was once a Victorian workhouse in England, more than 4,500 unmarked graves were found. Most of the remains belong to the impoverished citizens of Bristol, who lived in filthy ...

Liz Shearer described the conditions at Macclesfield District General Hospital as being like a "Victorian workhouse". We've now heard back from East Cheshire NHS Trust, which manages the hospital ...

videoDodger's guide to poverty and the workhouse In this short film for primary schools Dodger and the gang provide a brief guide to the Victorian workhouse and the common diseases from the time ...