Archaeologists from the Museum of London Archaeology (MOLA) say they have uncovered unusual details while excavating St Pancras Workhouse ... with historical records recording multiple sick ...

The hard labor and often cruel conditions experienced by the indigent inmates of London’s workhouses are well-documented in nineteenth-century historical records and popular literature.

By the 1850s, numbers had soared to 1,900. In 1865, an investigation into London workhouse infirmaries by the medical journal the Lancet observed: “Overcrowding … must render the wards in ...

and his colleagues have excavated the site of London’s infamous St. Pancras workhouse, where they uncovered rooms with fireplaces and walls covered with blue plaster. The institution also ...

Archeologists from the Museum of London Architecture (MOLA ... have revealed the remains of the 200-year-old St Pancras Workhouse, where 'inmates' were tasked with hard labour and arduous chores ...

Illustrated is the parish workhouse in Tanner Street, Bermondsey, London. The 1834 law formally established the early Victorian workhouse system. The New Poor Law commissioners proposed that all ...

A 200-year-old London workhouse thought to have inspired Charles ... times to deal with severe overcrowding, with historical records recording multiple sick wards, difficult conditions and hard ...