The UK’s universal credit programme, which aims to roll six forms of state welfare including unemployment and housing benefits into one, was launched in 2010 with the aim of supporting people to work.

It is a tale of heart-wrenching misery and punishments that would normally break a grown man, let alone three small Hampshire boys.

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 ...

The last part of an historic Birmingham workhouse has been earmarked for demolition to pave the way for the redevelopment of the Dudley Road hospital site. The grand entrance to the building, known ...

Sir Tony Robinson visits excavations of the workhouse that inspired Charles Dickens' 'Oliver Twist'. To find out more, do check out the websites of some of our expert contributors: A big thanks to ...

MPs are calling for major reform to working practices and corporate governance at Sports Direct, after publishing a damning report comparing working conditions at the retailer's warehouses to "a ...

The owners of a Victorian workhouse are trying to get funding to repair part of the roof. The former Llanfyllin Union Workhouse in Powys, known locally as Y Dolydd, opened in 1839 and could house up ...

PALESTINIANS in Gaza and the West Bank have been forced to live a dreadful life amid the intermittent horrors of bombings and killings. After over a year of Israeli genocidal war on Gaza, there is now ...

Along the River Avon in southwest England, the city of Bristol has centuries of history. The harbor town was first incorporated in 1155, and soon became a major port through the export of wool from ...