A 19th Century workhouse, which has been described as a "bit of a blot", is being sold. The former Hexham Workhouse on ...

The sellers of a prominent historic building in a Northumberland town have said they are confident of finding a suitable ...

LONDON, ENGLAND—According to a report in The Guardian, Gwilym Williams of the Museum of London Archaeology (MOLA) and his colleagues have excavated the site of London’s infamous St. Pancras ...

ONCE A FAMOUS ACTRESS.; Julia St. George, Eighty Years Old, Dies in a London Workhouse. Share full article. Nov. 17, 1903. Credit... The New York Times Archives.

Discoveries suggest St Pancras workhouse that may have inspired work of Charles Dickens was intended to be place of comfort Over its 200-year history, its premises were cramped and overcrowded ...

A 200-year-old London workhouse thought to have inspired Charles Dickens may not have started out as inhospitable as its reputation suggests. Archaeologists from the Museum of London Archaeology ...

The workhouse system in England and Wales evolved in the 17th century and was designed to deal with the pressing issue of pauperism. But the workhouse quickly became a byword for cruelty, ...

Experts from the Museum of London Archaeology (MOLA) visited the 200-year-old workhouse and were left astonished to uncover "a significant portion of these original buildings".

Women’s ward, St. Pancras workhouse, London, England. The hard labor and often cruel conditions experienced by the indigent inmates of London’s workhouses are well-documented in nineteenth ...

A workhouse was the setting for Charles Dickens’ novel “Oliver Twist,” a story that follows an orphan as he navigates the ... Bristol is about a 120-mile drive west from London. Read Next .

The site once held a prisoner-of-war camp and a cholera hospital before being converted into a Victorian workhouse, archaeologists said. Screengrab from Cotswold Archaeology's Facebook post Along ...