Workhouse Arts Center is bringing Clyde’s by Lynn Nottage to the stage from March 8 to April 6, 2025. This heartwarming and comedic play follows a group of formerly incarcerated kitchen staff on ...

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 ...

The process started in December 2023 when DeVooght House Lifters up and moved the 1860s doctor's office from South Marr Street to 127 N. Main St., a journey that spanned less than a mile but took ...

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 ...

A FORMER workhouse building which later became part of the Barony Hospital in Nantwich looks set to be converted into flats. Greenhouse Property Management wants to convert Bevan House, the ...

Today's top videos Homeowners Claire and Seán Fox bought this 1860s shop and restored it to all its glory while repurposing it as their forever home by keeping integral pieces of its former structure.

The National Trust’s Workhouse and Infirmary, Southwell, closed over the winter for it’s annual conservation clean — but will open it’s doors again from Wednesday, February 19. It’s just in time for ...

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 ...

The ruined former City Workhouse Castle built in 1897 to incarcerate petty criminals ... Those limestone structures, which date to the 1860s, are being redeveloped as the 2000 Vine retail and office ...

Congress didn't take major action to address the gender wage gap until the passage of the Equal Pay Act in 1963, although the "Equal Pay for Equal Work" movement dates back to the 1860s.