Gwilym Williams, project manager at MOLA, said the survival of such "extraordinary" details allowed them to get a "vivid picture" A 200-year-old London workhouse thought to have inspired Charles ...

The site once held a prisoner-of-war camp and a cholera hospital before being converted into a Victorian workhouse, archaeologists said. Screengrab from Cotswold Archaeology's Facebook post Along the ...

Archaeologists have uncovered incredible remains of a Victorian workhouse with colourful walls and a fireplace that offer insights into the early 19th-century workhouses established to help the poor.

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The history of workhouse life in Ireland has suffered badly at the hands of its few historians, not only through neglect but also through the failure to treat it as other than merely a part of the ...

A United Nations report on poverty in the United Kingdom has painted a damning picture of a nation where “compassion” for the poorest has been replaced with a “mean-spirited” approach reminiscent of ...

It is a scene burned on the consciousness of millions from the numerous TV and film adaptations. Having finished his bowl of gruel, Oliver Twist, thin and quivering, pleads for some more. Now, the ...

LONDON, ENGLAND—According to a report in The Guardian, Gwilym Williams of the Museum of London Archaeology (MOLA) and his colleagues have excavated the site of London’s infamous St. Pancras workhouse, ...

A new UN Report on the UK has been condemned by Conservative Party MPs for atacking the UK's welfare regime and the impact of reforms since 2010. The report, written by UN extreme poverty and human ...

Along the River Avon in southwest England, the city of Bristol has centuries of history. The harbor town was first incorporated in 1155, and soon became a major port through the export of wool from ...