This year marks the 50th birthday for the award-winning Nidderdale Museum, rated in the top 10% of museums nationwide. To mark the event, visitors will be able to enjoy its 13 themed exhibition spaces ...

The excavation that began on the site of the mother and baby home yesterday is making history in a double sense ...

Babies were buried, without coffins, one on top of the other in the 9ft-deep chamber of a septic tank in Tuam, Galway ...

In December 1843, work on the workhouse in Athy was completed. The first inmates were admitted to the workhouse on 9 January ...