If you became orphaned, elderly, sick, disabled or were simply unable to find work in Victorian London, then you may have found yourself in the workhouse. Until the Poor Law Amendment Act 1834 ...

Illustrated is the parish workhouse in Tanner Street, Bermondsey, London. The 1834 law formally established the early Victorian workhouse system. The New Poor Law commissioners proposed that all ...

In 1837, the beginning of the Victorian era, the building was converted into the Stapleton Workhouse ... is about a 120-mile drive west from London.

As dirty, smelly and unpleasant as scavenging jobs were in Victorian London, the privations of the scavengers paled in comparison to the sheer misery inflicted on paupers in the workhouse.

The building is one of only three surviving Georgian workhouses in London, and has close ties to the Victorian social reformer Joseph Rogers, the workhouse's medical officer, who fought for ...

In 1865, an investigation into London workhouse infirmaries by the medical ... is immediately associated with those darker aspects of Victorian life, which fascinate us, but repel us at the ...

LONDON (Reuters) - The National Archives and the National Trust launched a new Web site on Wednesday offering a glimpse into the often cruel life of a workhouse in the Victorian age. Workhouses ...

and his colleagues have excavated the site of London’s infamous St. Pancras workhouse, where they uncovered rooms with fireplaces and walls covered with blue plaster. The institution also ...

In 1837, the beginning of the Victorian era, the building was converted into the Stapleton Workhouse ... is about a 120-mile drive west from London. Irene Wright is a McClatchy Real-Time reporter.