The revival of Victorian workhouse gruel is the first step in the Royal Society of Chemistry's 2009 theme of food, and the meal's reappearance comes a week before a major RSC report "The Vital ...

Chancellor Rachel Reeves has been accused of balancing her books on the backs of the poor in her recent budget, by cutting welfare payments and trying to force unemployed people to work. But in ...

Victorian illustration that shows a destitute family being visited by a relieving officer, who is assessing them for medical or poor relief (for example food or to pay their rent) or to authorise ...

Even though the poor were provided with accommodation and (inadequate) food in the workhouse, the system bore hallmarks of slavery. Victorian writer Charles Dickens was a formidable critic of the ...

Even though the poor were provided with accommodation and (inadequate) food in the workhouse, the system bore hallmarks of slavery. Victorian writer Charles Dickens was a formidable critic of the ...

He also has no ability to leave his house. He’s appealing his failed ESA medical, but his sister has to travel from Wales on his behalf to do so, and also to provide food for him. I gave him a food ...

Workhouses were set up to give the poor food and accommodation in return for long hours of labour. The National Trust said Southwell was the best preserved example of the hundreds which at one ...

The Dickensian delights of the Victorian workhouse, immortalised in the moment when a starving Oliver Twist dares to ask for some more watery gruel, are being brought to Britons hit by the credit ...

The Victorian workhouse first came about as a result of the 1834 Poor Law Amendment Act. This act transferred the administration of poor relief from individual parishes to a coordinated national ...

The Food Fair will showcase the best of food and drink from Mid-Wales and the border, with a range of street food to enjoy and delicious artisan products to sample. All this takes place in the ...

The food fair and open doors day at the Llanfyllin Workhouse will be returning once again on Sunday, September 8, featuring a range of performances, artworks, exhibitions and of course, a whole host ...