The hard labor and often cruel conditions experienced by the indigent inmates of London’s workhouses are well-documented in nineteenth-century historical records and popular literature. However, ...

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 ...

It is a tale of heart-wrenching misery and punishments that would normally break a grown man, let alone three small Hampshire boys.

The British government announced Monday it has given protected status to a former workhouse thought to have inspired Charles Dickens’ “Oliver Twist,” a move that should save the building from ...

LONDON (Reuters) - The National Archives and the National Trust launched a new Web site on Wednesday offering a glimpse into the often cruel life of a workhouse in the Victorian age. Workhouses were ...

In September 1777, Samuel Johnson declared to his friend James Boswell, "When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life." Johnson actually was referring to his hectic social calendar, but he did ...

LONDON – A damning British parliamentary report has condemned working conditions at a leading sporting goods firm, comparing it to a Victorian workhouse. The report about retail firm Sports Direct ...