In Victorian England ... they rendered the conditions inside the workhouse deliberately harsh and sufficiently degrading so that the poor did not wish to live there. As the narrator in Oliver ...

During the Victorian era, Glasgow became the workhouse of the empire as the industrial revolution saw heavy industry such as shipbuilding introduced to the River Clyde.

The construction of a workhouse and the records of Northam Primary School paint a picture of the challenging living conditions ... to the replacement of Victorian terraces with modern flats ...

The belief of the Victorian English was that Irish indolence ... Before her harrowing exodus, a desperate Matilda Joyce went to an Irish workhouse where her hard labor was exchanged for one ...

world of the workhouses, insensible to the feelings of their inhabitants who belong to the lower classes; the criminal world of murderers, pickpockets living in squalid slums; the Victorian middle ...

Demolition began Tuesday morning at the former Medium Security Institution, commonly known as the Workhouse. City leaders and groups in support of the demolition, including Close the Workhouse and ...

Burris previously oversaw the jail in St. Louis County and was credited with improving conditions there. But Jones defended the decision to close the workhouse, recalling inmates’ complaints ...

Originally the Eccleshall Workhouse, the building’s intriguing ... You can explore the building's rich history, from its time as a Victorian doctor’s surgery, to its period as a premier ...

Back in the UK, recent photographs captured the creepy interior of mortuary dating back to the Victorian era ... in 1870 as the new Bradford Union Workhouse, housing 350 paupers and a spacious ...