Meant to protect Hull's most vulnerable, workhouses and asylums were often the scene of tragedy ...

A NEW memorial was unveiled at a poignant ceremony in Laois, in honour of famine victims buried in a mass grave near a former ...

But a “refuge” it was not, and workhouses were overrun with abuse, neglect, poor working conditions, malnutrition and forced child labor, according to Historic UK. A workhouse was the setting ...

Parish priest Fr Paddy Byrne and Canon Patrick Harvey will officiate at the service in memory of Laois famine victims, who ...

In some places the authorities were more enlightened and some workhouse institutions pioneered ... up a large separate institution for pauper children, the Swinton Moral and Industrial School.

It satirises the social inequalities of the day, raising awareness amongst its readers of issues such as child exploitation and the living standards of the poor. Expelled from the workhouse for ...

In 1708 and 1784 new amendments were inserted into the original act and Charity Hall became the first Hull Workhouse. It was initially designed to take poor children, teach them trades and then ...