Walking through the genteel streets of Ripon, it’s easy to imagine the well-to-do of Victorian Yorkshire society going about their day-to-day lives, perhaps worshipping in the Cathedral or shopping in ...

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 ...

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 ...

A leaky roof in a former Victorian workhouse will be fixed after a multimillion-pound grant was awarded to the charity behind its operation as a museum. Ripon Museums Trust, which runs the Workhouse ...

Archaeologists have uncovered incredible remains of a Victorian workhouse with colourful walls and a fireplace that offer insights into the early 19th-century workhouses established to help the poor.

Would you be brave enough to go ghost hunting at a former Victorian workhouse? Georgia Banks was – but it wasn’t enough to put her cynicism to rest RIPON Workhouse Museum is a forbidding place.

Would you be brave enough to go ghost hunting at a former Victorian workhouse? Georgia Banks was – but it wasn’t enough to put her cynicism to rest RIPON Workhouse Museum is a forbidding place.