In 1888, five women met regularly in a London pub. With little recourse other than slaving away in one of the city’s horrific workhouses, they chose instead to work as prostitutes, also referred to at ...

The Whitechapel workhouse had a beer quota of two pints per inmate. Workhouses where the beer was provided "without limitation" included Barking and the one at Greycoat Hospital in Westminster, ...

The plight of the poor in London's East End during the early 1900s has been revealed in photos. The destitute were photographed on the streets of Whitechapel by American journalist Jack London. He ...

Robert Paul, 30, Forster-street, Whitechapel, carman, said as he was going to work at Cobbett's-court, Spitalfields, he saw in Buck's-row a man standing in the middle of the road.As witness drew ...

There were thrilling scenes on the roof of Whitechapel Workhouse at Mile End in London today. An inmate at the workhouse scaled the roof and, for over an hour, kept the authorities at bay, as ...