Their life at Southwell's workhouse, in Nottinghamshire, began in 1968 and lasted until 1971. "I used to spend hours with my little doll, looking out of those windows, thinking, 'When is somebody ...

The stone building, in which day procedures now take place, was once the Belfast Workhouse If there is a building that symbolises how life has changed in Northern Ireland over the past century it ...

I'll tell you. Yeah, for a penny. The workhouse is the last place you want to go. They deliberately make it bad. Bad food, bad clothes, bad beds. Any time today. Well, work of course! We start at ...

Jeff Strickland tells the powerful story of Nicholas Kelly, the enslaved craftsman who led the Charleston Workhouse Slave Rebellion, the largest slave revolt in the history of the antebellum American ...

Check if you have access via personal or institutional login While the welfare functions of the workhouse have been well researched, its medical services have been comparatively neglected. Throughout ...

Local historian Roger Frost MBE reveals how the ruins of the former workhouse, hidden away among trees off Blackburn Road, ...