In Victorian England ... they rendered the conditions inside the workhouse deliberately harsh and sufficiently degrading so that the poor did not wish to live there. As the narrator in Oliver ...

In 1837, the beginning of the Victorian era, the building was converted into the Stapleton Workhouse, archaeologists said. “The workhouse served as a refuge for the city’s poor, offering ...

National Trust The workhouse recreates some of the sights and sounds of a Victorian institution One of the principle issues is, at first glance, surprisingly mundane. "One of the main concerns in ...