The Government has been asked to speed up the process that would see the former Gort Convent transformed into a remote ...

Adapting to the special circumstances of COVID-19 with the need for social distancing, the Workhouse Arts Center will be presenting movie entertainment for the whole family. How? With drive-in ...

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

Only one thing held his attention. In 1850 as a 13-year-old old boy on his way to school he passed the Barclay Iron Works. He said he was captivated, even obsessed with the red, glowing rivulets ...

In this fifth annual series of seminars on the lives of those experiencing or threatened with Old and New Poor Law workhouses, convened jointly by Nottingham Trent University and The National Archives ...

Michael Slater’s book has an epilogue entitled ‘Will We Ever Know?’ No need, in this year of Dickens, to ask what the question is. Nelly, of course. His mistress? Mother of his deceased or living ...

The Staffordshire History Centre brings together three incredible collections to create exciting and imaginative ways to connect Staffordshire people and their stories. Our onsite Research Room is ...

The poor law union records of most use for family historians are the admission and discharge registers of the Poor Law Institutions (commonly known as workhouses), and relief lists. Please note, ...