Over 1,000 women ended up in a Dutch state workhouse between 1886 and 1934. This was a place for vagrants, beggars and drunkards: people who were said to be too lazy to work. Who were the women ...

Until 1834 the Poor Law worked on the assumption ... There was a stern approach to people who applied for help and workhouses became a major plank in dealing with the poor. They were places ...

Men sitting down to a workhouse meal The Poor Law was amended in 1834 to reduce the cost of helping the poor. Those desperate for assistance and having no other option were sent to workhouses.

Until 1834 the Poor Law worked on the assumption ... There was a stern approach to people who applied for help and workhouses became a major plank in dealing with the poor. They were places ...