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 who ...

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Elizabeth Berry was hanged at Walton Prison in 1887 after murdering her 11-year-old daughter, Edith. Working as a nurse at ...

As punishment, he maroons her and her lover on ... Kate Gilvarry has spent six months in a Newry workhouse, subsisting on a diet of watery porridge. She knows there’s no future for her either ...

Danny Dyer Danny Dyer’s connection to royalty was an astounding discovery which left him in disbelief after the beginning of his journey to the past told stories of poverty and the workhouse.

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Your sentence is your period of punishment for the crime you have committed ... of the sentence in continuous confinement for up to one year in the local jail or workhouse, with probation for a period ...

All these bring nostalgia, well, except for the unforgettable punishments we all experienced in high school. Today's article focuses on bringing back memories of all the popular punishments we ...