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 ...

It is a tale of heart-wrenching misery and punishments that would normally break a grown man, let alone three small Hampshire boys.

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LONDON, ENGLAND—According to a report in The Guardian, Gwilym Williams of the Museum of London Archaeology (MOLA) and his colleagues have excavated the site of London’s infamous St. Pancras workhouse, ...

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Freewheelers is working with Surrey History Centre and King's College London to recreate the images.

A United Nations report on poverty in the United Kingdom has painted a damning picture of a nation where “compassion” for the poorest has been replaced with a “mean-spirited” approach reminiscent of ...

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 ...