I n 1856, after an outbreak of cholera had decimated his general practice, 36-year-old Joseph Rogers took a job as the medical officer at the Strand Union workhouse on Cleveland Street in Camden ...

An Irish historian has uncovered workhouse documents dating back to the Irish potato famine in 1847 which brutally highlights the horrors of the Great Hunger. A Kinsale Union Workhouse Register ...

Tens of thousands of children ended up in workhouses during the Famine - and conditions there were grim, as Gerard Moran explains. This piece contains images that may be distressing.

- A 35-year-old author, George Fitzgibbon Lysaght entered the North Dublin Union Workhouse in 1853. Before falling on hard times, George was a wealthy landowner in County Clare.

London has a wealth of extant former workhouses, including Gordon Road Workhouse (Peckham), St Matthew’s Bethnal Green Workhouse, Holborn Union Workhouse, West Ham Union Workhouse, Leytonstone, Havil ...

The conditions in Parsonstown Workhouse in Birr, County Offaly, were horrendous. As Andrés Eiríksson explains, what happened there exemplified the worst responses to the Famine ...

The Strand Union Workhouse had a rule, for instance, expressly prohibiting second helpings of food, which may have given rise to the most famous sentence in the book: “Please, ...

In the 1880s the Billericay Union Workhouse was known as the ‘tramps favourite’ due to the light work its inmates had to carry out and the excellent fare it served up. This was to change, however.

According to Norfolk Museums, between 1777 and 1948, Mitford and Launditch Union Workhouse - now Gressenhall Farm and Workhouse - was home to some of the most vulnerable people in rural Norfolk.

The 3,649 sq ft home based in Great Snoring was built 200 years ago and once accommodated 250 people as the Walsingham Union workhouse. But from 1930 the remaining 30 inmates were transferred from ...

In 1794 the Reigate Union Workhouse, Surrey, was opened on Redhill Common. Nearby, in 1855, the Earlswood Asylum for Idiots and Imbeciles was opened next to Earlswood Common. Two cousins of the ...

Set back slightly from the main road behind public gardens, Ditchburn Place was built in 1838 as the Cambridge Union Workhouse. Nowadays, it sits behind an Indian archway salvaged by a member of ...