Are you looking for things to do with your kids during half term? If so, a workhouse museum has a range of fun farming ...

The 1834 Act forced the country’s 15,000 parishes to merge into 643 ‘unions’, with each having its own workhouse, about 10 miles from the next. The Hastings Union was formed at a meeting in ...

The graves of thousands of people in a famine-era Belfast burial ground are finally set to be officially marked.

The scheme, known as Archway Campus is centred on a former Victorian hospital building that began its life as The Holborn and Finsbury Union Workhouse Infirmary. It was designed by Victorian ...

A new book offers a comprehensive and heartbreaking account of the most terrible catastrophe to befall Ireland in the modern ...

A Hennepin County District Court judge handed down Minnesota’s first wage theft conviction on Wednesday against a painting ...

McNeilly, a criminal defense attorney, was sentenced in Hennepin County District Court in 2022 to 180 days in the county workhouse after being convicted ... of between $35,000 and $50,000 to a police ...

But in Victorian Britain a much cruder welfare-cutting strategy was used, the architectural remnants of which can still be seen around the country today: the union workhouses. Did you know with an ...

Niall McLaughlin’s 27-storey student accommodation in Islington has been called in by Sadiq Khan after being rejected by the ...

Sadiq Khan has called in another student accommodation scheme after Islington council said it would reject the plan. The ...