A fierce Scottish matron ran the children through a list of rules ... to which Susan and her family had been brought was a Victorian workhouse - one of the first to be built in the country.

This is surprising given the number of people forced to enter when the potato failed: in 1849, 923,000 were admitted to the workhouses and while the majority stayed for a short period, children ...

A woman has revealed her 'traumatic' childhood growing up in a Victorian workhouse in the '60s - and ... alcohol for her mother and said the children got to such a stage that they would go ...

Workhouses are usually associated with the long-ago squalor of the Victorian underclass ... and mothers from their children. People who witnessed neighbours going into the workhouse never forgot ...

Dickens campaigned vigorously for children’s rights ... legacy of the brutal conditions and social savagery of the Victorian workhouse, most of which became virtual prisons detaining the ...

One of the best examples of a Victorian workhouse will open to ... But for the many children at the workhouse, there was at least schooling. Image source, Llanfyllin Dolydd Building Preservation ...

Experts delve into the truth behind the famous gruel which was served to children in the Victorian workhouse, and feel it might not have been as bad as what was portrayed by Charles Dickens.

A historic property which served as the gatehouse to homes built to shelter the children of the Victorian workhouse is up for sale. The grade II listed Orchard Lodge, which was built in 1884 for ...

But for the many children at the workhouse ... New records cast light on life in Victorian workhouses Previously unseen records shedding new light on life in Victorian workhouses in Wales go ...