“The workhouse served as a refuge for the city ... Bristol is about a 120-mile drive west from London.

PALESTINIANS in Gaza and the West Bank have been forced to live a dreadful life amid the intermittent horrors of bombings and ...

The workhouse is more than 200 years old and is the best preserved example of its kind Pony hair brushes, lambs' wool dusters and targeted dehumidifiers have been used to get a heritage attraction ...

Expelled from the workhouse for having had the temerity to ask for more gruel, Oliver is placed as an apprentice to an undertaker, but is mistreated and runs away to London. Here he meets the ...

In Victorian England, workhouses were meant to keep the paupers ... comparison between the treatment convicted felons received at London's Pentonville Prison and the treatment the poor got at ...

Oliver remains at the workhouse and his early years there in ... notices that a milestone indicates that it is only 70 miles to London. So Oliver makes London his destination.