Soon after Emily’s birth, the family moved to Worplesdon where five siblings were born by 1825. Two more siblings, George and ...

Monto’s earliest madams in the 1860s were women that survived the horror of the Famine and the brutality of poverty and the workhouse. They were survivors with little other options but to sell ...

The Workhouse in Enniskillen has transformed from its sombre past to a vibrant site of resilience, while Belfast's historic Templemore Baths remain a vital community hub. Show more Once a sombre ...

When Lynn’s, the long-established family ironmongers at 7 Bridge Street, Andover, was cleared out in the early 1980s, an old hand-written accounts book from 1860-61 was found ... specific payments ...

Section 7 confers the power of detaining in the Workhouse persons who shall have been duly committed to the City Prison, the Penitentiary or the Almshouse; but prohibits employing vagrants or ...

Even though the poor were provided with accommodation and (inadequate) food in the workhouse, the system bore hallmarks of slavery. Victorian writer Charles Dickens was a formidable critic of the ...

It does not necessarily reflect the view of The Herald. A FORMER workhouse building which later became part of the Barony Hospital in Nantwich looks set to be converted into flats. Greenhouse Property ...

at St. Thomas’ Hospital in London (opened 1860). She also was instrumental in setting up training for midwives and nurses in workhouse infirmaries Barton served as a nurse during the Civil War ...