A United Nations report on poverty in the United Kingdom has painted a damning picture of a nation where “compassion” for the poorest has been replaced with a “mean-spirited” approach ...

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 ...

Historians debate when workhouses finally stopped operating in Britain. Many give the date as 1930, when the boards of officials that managed the buildings were dissolved. Others say 1948, when ...

A Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from 1908 shows vegetable gardens, a chicken coop, and pigsties. A Workhouse superintendent, Henry Stussel, had boasted that he had achieved self-sufficiency (and a tidy ...

On August 26, 1920, the 19th Amendment became law. Citizens of the United States could no longer be barred from voting based on their sex. The culmination of many decades of struggle involving ...

Instead, Mr Trump extolled the prosperity of America in the late 19th century, when the country was much poorer than it is today. “We can be so much wealthier than any country, it’s not even ...

A half-century after ratification, when African-Americans were still being beaten and murdered for seeking the vote, the charismatic organizer Fannie Lou Hamer did not stand on the 19th Amendment.