Discoveries suggest St Pancras workhouse that may have inspired work of Charles Dickens was intended to be place of comfort Over its 200-year history, its premises were cramped and overcrowded ...

A 19th Century workhouse, which has been described as a "bit of a blot", is being sold. The former Hexham Workhouse on ...

PAUPERS GET WHAT KING CAN'T AFFORD; London Workhouse Built on the Plan of a Fifth Avenue Hotel. ART AND LUXURY COMBINED Mosaic Floors, Stained-Glass Windows, and a Baronial Dining Hall -- Cost ...

A 200-year-old London workhouse thought to have inspired Charles Dickens may not have started out as inhospitable as its reputation suggests. Archaeologists from the Museum of London Archaeology ...

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 ...

Experts from the Museum of London Archaeology (MOLA) visited the 200-year-old workhouse and were left astonished to uncover "a significant portion of these original buildings".

The workhouse system in England and Wales evolved in the 17th century and was designed to deal with the pressing issue of pauperism. But the workhouse quickly became a byword for cruelty, ...

Women’s ward, St. Pancras workhouse, London, England. The hard labor and often cruel conditions experienced by the indigent inmates of London’s workhouses are well-documented in nineteenth ...

Gwilym Williams, project manager at MOLA, said the survival of such "extraordinary" details allowed them to get a "vivid picture" A 200-year-old London workhouse thought to have inspired Charles ...

A 200-year-old London workhouse thought to have inspired Charles Dickens may not have started out as inhospitable as its reputation suggests.