A rare needlework sampler made by an orphan in 1901 is set to sell for thousands at auction. The Victorian sampler is ...

More than 16,000 people detained at the former Workhouse jail in St. Louis are now eligible to claim money after the City of St. Louis settled a lawsuit for $4 million over inhumane conditions at ...

The Medium Security Institution sits empty as it undergoes demolition on Tuesday, March 18, 2025, in St. Louis. The jail, known as the Workhouse, closed in June 2022.

Once a boarded-up giant, Selly Oak Hospital in Birmingham is now home to flats and families. How did this eerie landmark ...

Gaby Rivers will be the guest at the Mid Border Arts Sunday Session on St David’s Day, Sunday, March 1. Presenting ‘Stories from the Stores’, Gaby will be at The Assembly Rooms in Presteigne at 3.30pm ...

When I got a text from one of this newspaper’s comment editors asking me if I wanted to write a defence of child labour, I ...

This is the story of an Isle of Wight woman among the peasant class in Victorian times, who was tried for infanticide.

Contagious cases of tuberculosis were detected at Amazon's Coventry site by the UKHSA last summer ...

An extra property will be added to an already agreed development for 22 affordable homes at a mid Wales village . Earlier this this year, Newtown-based Mid Wales Property (MWP) lodged an application ...

On September 12, the Supreme Court, in M.S. Patter v. State of NCT of Delhi [2025 INSC 1115], drew attention to one of the most invisible corners of Indian governance — the beggars’ home. The court ...