A historic Merseyside cinema is one of three properties to be sold after a multi-million-pound company at the centre of a ...

Sarah Kerr worked with archive material from workhouses in and around Nottingham, and with design guidance for the JobCentre Plus network of buildings; with the records from the early income tax ...

Elijah Jarvis, of London, KY, said local 911 center officials went to a FedEx pickup location, retrieved his package containing open records and removed information from it before he arrived.

London has a wealth of extant former workhouses, including Gordon Road Workhouse (Peckham), St Matthew’s Bethnal Green Workhouse, Holborn Union Workhouse, West Ham Union Workhouse, Leytonstone, Havil ...

The hard labor and often cruel conditions experienced by the indigent inmates of London’s workhouses are well-documented in nineteenth-century historical records and popular literature. However ...

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Workhouse records reveal rural Ireland’s harsh past On July 31, 1838, the Poor Law was introduced to Ireland. The hardship of the souls who sought salvation from disease and starvation are ...

Workhouses Test Act 1723 The 1723 Workhouses Test Act obliged anybody seeking poor relief to enter a workhouse and undertake a set amount of work, usually for no pay (a system called indoor relief).

Farm servant Mary Gorman's life took an unimaginable course after giving testimony in the trial of Roger Casement, ending up in New York, where she disappeared from the historical record. What ...

World News Three London hospital staffers under investigation over alleged Kate Middleton medical records breach: report By Joe Tacopino Published March 20, 2024, 2:53 p.m. ET ...