The notion that people who get government benefits should prove that they deserve them, ideally through paid labor, is now centuries old. This conviction underlay the Victorian workhouses in ...

From Scrooge to Oliver Twist, these 15 best adaptations based on Charles Dickens' books are movies Victorian era fans need to ...

But in Victorian Britain a much cruder welfare-cutting ... assistance in the form of ‘out relief’ – grants of money, food, clothes etc to people in their own homes. However, the workhouse (first known ...

and ‘in kind’ (mainly food, eg bread) for that period. The reason for this poor relief was that Elizabeth, now in her 70s, was ‘infirm’, and Emily was an ‘imbecile’. This latter term was widely used ...

National Trust A variety of natural fibre brushes are used to remove dust without causing damage Workhouses were set up to give the poor food and accommodation ... sounds of a Victorian ...

Blists Hill Victorian Town is hosting Victorian Food Week, with the opportunity ... like jellied eels or workhouse gruel. In the town’s exhibits they can help the Victorian residents with ...

the sprawling squalor of Victorian Britain has gone the way of the workhouse. The laissez-faire liberalism that Dickens deplored is light-years away from today’s social welfare state. (No food ...

The Victorian workhouse first came about as a result of the ... Although this menu compared well to that typically consumed by poor labourers living outside the workhouse, the food was not without ...

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 food fair and open doors day at the Llanfyllin Workhouse ... one of Britain’s best preserved workhouse from the Victorian New Poor Law. These will include a slide show will mark twenty years of ...