Over 1,000 women ended up in a Dutch state workhouse between 1886 and 1934. This was a place for vagrants, beggars and ...

At a site that was once a Victorian workhouse in England, more than 4,500 unmarked graves were found. Most of the remains belong to the impoverished citizens of Bristol, who lived in filthy ...

In 1837, the beginning of the Victorian era, the building was converted into the Stapleton Workhouse, archaeologists said. “The workhouse served as a refuge for the city’s poor, offering ...