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 ...

Famine pots, or soup boilers, are a reminder of the saddest chapter of Irish history. The Great Famine (1845 to 1852) saw the ...

A feel-good place with great-tasting, healthy food is The Gleaners Café ... possibly the cutest museum in the world. It has been a workhouse, a police station and now houses the Bremer Car ...

Chancellor Rachel Reeves has been accused of balancing her books on the backs of the poor in her recent budget, by cutting ...

A feel-good place with great-tasting, healthy food is The Gleaners Café ... possibly the cutest museum in the world. It has been a workhouse, a police station and now houses the Bremer Car ...

Rupert Parker sets out on foot and discovers culture and history on the beautiful Dorset coast I always believe the best way ...

Homes of the Bristol Poor told of how sickness and unemployment left families pawning or selling clothes, furniture and everything they had just to buy food, where women took ... the city over several ...

In Victorian London foundlings Hetty Feather and Gideon Smeed ... she must think of a way to meet Gideon for a celebration. When food is stolen from the kitchen Matron orders a lockdown but Hetty ...

In Victorian London foundlings Hetty Feather and Gideon Smeed ... she must think of a way to meet Gideon for a celebration. When food is stolen from the kitchen Matron orders a lockdown but Hetty ...