The remakable life and times of Julia Varley, the Bradford-born trade unionist and suffragette, are celebrated in a new ...

It begins with domestic scenes of a baby crying and a woman bathing a child in a wooden tub ... Warren Buffett suggests reading a 19th century poem when stocks fall Trump unveils $5 million ...

An African famine or children kicking ... over the next half century, through two world wars and an economic depression, this led to the modern welfare state. The basket of goods approach was used ...

EXCLUSIVE: 20th Century Studios has boarded an adaptation of Children of the Jungle, with Giannina Scott aboard to produce and Roberto Bentivegna penning the script. Scott will produce through her ...

With their origins in the 19th century ... and children toiling away in mills and factories. Destitute families were often left with no choice but the workhouse. The mission became a beacon ...

From then until the early 20th century, the workhouse was where the poor ... finally given a markerREAD MORE: 'Child's bones' uncovered in Bristol park A memorial ceremony is planned to accompany ...

During this time, middle-class women in particular bore fewer children and focused more attention ... of American marriage. One notable 20th century shift that changed the nature and context ...

Less glamorously it was actually Worcester Poor Law Institution or Worcester Workhouse ... children. Despite giving the city much meritorious service during the middle decades of the 20th century ...

aged 24, was committed to Abingdon Workhouse, known locally as ‘the Grubber’, under ... of Parliament wrecked tens of thousands of lives in the first half of the 20th century. The Undesirables is as ...

At this time the poor and distressed of West Kerry had to travel up to 40 miles to the workhouse in Tralee ... From the mid-twentieth century pressure from the public, nuns, local clergy and ...