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 ...

Five sets of historical, skeletal human remains consistent with the workhouse era - dating from 1841 to 1918 - have been recovered at the former site of the Mother and Baby Institution in Tuam. The ...

Join us as we explore Victorian England and how the English Poor Laws were aimed to help the "deserving poor," only to be overwhelmed by industrialization and urbanization. Evolving these laws into ...