Mogg, STEPHEN ARNELL observes how modern Conservatives yearn for the return of the brutal institutions where the poor were ...

Every year descendants of the thousands of orphaned Irish teenage girls sent to Australia during the Great Famine gather in ...

The harsh regime of workhouses is something we associate with Victorian times. But the shocking truth about the buildings is that they continued to house families well into the 20th Century.

Melbourne looked something like this when young Irish orphans arrived Between 1848 and 1850 more than 4,000 young Irish female orphans left workhouses and were transported to Australia.