A museum housed on the site of an old parish workhouse is putting its past on show. 'The Workhouse: Life on the edge in 18th century Walthamstow' unlocks the history of Vestry House in Walthamstow to ...

A museum home to thousands of archives is to have its dark past as a parish workhouse revealed in a new exhibition. 'The workhouse: life on the edge in 18th century Walthamstow' opens up Waltham ...

Readers of Dicken’s “Oliver Twist” are familiar with the life in England’s 19th century workhouses, where the young Oliver spent part of his impoverished youth. But few readers know that workhouses ...

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