For centuries, poverty was seen as a fact of life, with charity considered a moral duty. However, the Early Modern period introduced ideas linking poverty to laziness, fueled by religious shifts like ...

Upon entering the workhouse you were separated from everyone and everything ... I gave him a food parcel, but while speaking to his sister I noted the comparisons to life in Victorian times. A time ...

During the Victorian era, Glasgow became the workhouse of the empire as the industrial revolution saw heavy industry such as ...

The National Trust said Southwell was the best preserved example of the hundreds which at one time dotted ... Trust The workhouse recreates some of the sights and sounds of a Victorian institution ...

Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank have been forced to live a dreadful life amid the intermittent horrors of bombings and killings. After over a year of Israeli genocide in Gaza, there is now ...

A discussion of the abuses of children and other vulnerable groups in Victorian workhouses may help understand the schemes of Israeli settler colonialism and the logic of its domination and ...

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 ...