British workhouses were intimately bound up with slavery and imperialism throughout the early modern period, new research from Cardiff University finds. Subscribe to our newsletter for the latest ...

The site once held a prisoner-of-war camp and a cholera hospital before being converted into a Victorian workhouse, archaeologists said. Screengrab from Cotswold Archaeology's Facebook post Along the ...

In Victorian society, the workhouse represented the underbelly of society, where anyone who was poor, homeless, unemployed or ill was sent to work and live. Before the birth of the NHS and the welfare ...

The hard labor and often cruel conditions experienced by the indigent inmates of London’s workhouses are well-documented in nineteenth-century historical records and popular literature. However, ...

LONDON, ENGLAND—According to a report in The Guardian, Gwilym Williams of the Museum of London Archaeology (MOLA) and his colleagues have excavated the site of London’s infamous St. Pancras workhouse, ...

Along the River Avon in southwest England, the city of Bristol has centuries of history. The harbor town was first incorporated in 1155, and soon became a major port through the export of wool from ...