Shrewsbury-based children's author Jamie Russell is celebrating a new milestone today with the release of his fourth book for ...

This weekend is the capstone of WorldPride celebrations, with parades in the streets of downtown and on the water; free outdoor concerts featuring stars like Doechii and Cynthia Erivo; and numerous ...

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

A MUCH-LIKED and popular Birr woman, who passed away many years ago, was remembered this week by a number of local people as ...

A MUCH-LIKED and popular Birr woman, who passed away many years ago, was remembered this week by a number of local people as ...

Whenever we hear the name Charlie Chaplin, our minds likely jump to an amusing, cane-wielding man with a hat and a mustache.

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 ...

Warman RCMP are asking for the public's help to identify a man who allegedly exposed himself to a child. The incident happened on Friday, May 9, at a business south of Saskatoon, off Highway 762 ...

The Jammu and Kashmir police on Wednesday released a set of sketches of the terrorists who were involved in the Pahalgam attacks that killed 26 people. The police said the sketches were made based ...

Ara Marguerite Starner was just 2 years old when she entered the Children’s Home of York ... “She found conditions there akin to the workhouses of Dickens’ day,” her biography said.

Children would help with some tasks, but they would also be schooled which is something which would not have been an option for them outside of The Workhouse. The building remained in use until ...

Between 1922 and 1990, some 10,000 young women were held in such homes across Northern Ireland or had their babies in private nursing homes, with their children usually adopted afterwards.