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The annual patron at the Paupers' Graveyard, Coolcotts, Wexford will take place on Friday, June 6 at 7.30 p.m.
A historic tapestry illustrating the history of Northallerton's Friarage Hospital has been restored and cleaned, funded by ...
In an ironic twist, the man who cracked the case, Detective Superintendent John Mallon – a regular customer of ...
A former wing of a South London hospital could be demolished for 150 new homes. New plans have been put forward for Regents Wing, on Coombe Road, which was part of Kingston Hospital until 2021.
The Sculcoates Union Workhouse was built between 1843 and 1845 by Henry F Lockwood and William Mawson and could house 500 inmates. In later years it became known as the Beverley Road Institution ...
The Kilmallock Union Workhouse, designed to house 800 people, opened in 1841, reflecting the area’s pre-famine poverty. During the famine, additional sheds and fever facilities were constructed ...
A historic tapestry illustrating the history of Northallerton's Friarage Hospital has been restored and cleaned, funded by Friends of the Friarage.
Berkshire Theatre Group opens summer season with revival of "The Elephant Man," a famed play about a beautiful soul in a ...
The remakable life and times of Julia Varley, the Bradford-born trade unionist and suffragette, are celebrated in a new ...
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 ...
U.S. President Donald Trump’s Mideast envoy expressed optimism about brokering an agreement to halt the Israel-Hamas war.