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 ...

Experts from the Museum of London Archaeology (MOLA) visited the 200-year-old workhouse and were left astonished to uncover "a significant portion of these original buildings".

Discoveries suggest St Pancras workhouse that may have inspired work of Charles Dickens was intended to be place of comfort Over its 200-year history, its premises were cramped and overcrowded ...

The British government announced Monday it has given protected status to a former workhouse thought to have inspired Charles Dickens’ “Oliver Twist,” a move that should save the b… ...

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 ...

The workhouses, where so many of the poor ended up, had been closed (officially) for more than 20 years, but the east London Worth describes, with its bug-infested tenements, its women worn out ...

Archaeologists are digging up the cemetery behind the Strand Union workhouse in Camden – and the remains reveal some grim secrets about the way Victorian society viewed the poor. Sean Russell ...

Campaigners celebrate a "milestone" in their fight to save an 18th Century workhouse in central London earmarked for demolition.

The largest collection of London's historical records ever to go online will reveal details of Charlie Chaplin's spell in a Southwark workhouse and the baptism of Charles Dickens's son.

Campaigners celebrate a "milestone" in their fight to save an 18th Century workhouse in central London earmarked for demolition.