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 the ...

A Victorian philanthropist who led an "extraordinary life" campaigning for women's and children's rights to health and ...

The “Earl Grey Scheme” saw 4,000 women sent out of overcrowded workhouses in Ireland to build colonies in Australia as ...

Plans to convert a former workhouse building into apartments have been given the green light. Bevan House, a three-storey listed building on the former Barony Hospital site in Nantwich, along with ...

Along the River Avon in southwest England, the city of Bristol has centuries of history. The harbor town was first incorporated in 1155, and soon became a major port through the export of wool from ...