After a restoration, the Ripon Workhouse Museum reopened to the public, showcasing the sights, sounds and rules of England’s ...
The original workhouse cellar has been opened up for the first time since 1930.
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 ...
Revamped Ripon attraction reopens as a more immersive experience telling ‘national story’ of poverty and welfare ...
The experiences of a woman who spent almost her entire childhood in Lisnaskea Workhouse have been included in the final ...
A handful of battered and very modest objects – a chipped enamel spittoon, a pair of wire-mesh eye protectors, a wooden doll with a crudely painted face but beautifully stitched clothes – are rare ...
The workhouse is more than 200 years old and is the best preserved example of its kind Pony hair brushes, lambs' wool dusters and targeted dehumidifiers have been used to get a heritage attraction ...
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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 ...
When a prisoner in the St. Louis Medium Security Institution, commonly known as the Workhouse, died on August 2, the police wouldn’t release his name at first. Then, a group of activists who form the ...
A museum has submitted an application to open up a cellar that has been inaccessible since 1930. Ripon Workhouse Museum's ...