Plans to save a Victorian workhouse in mid Wales and convert it into a community arts centre have been dealt a blow by vandals. Dyfed-Powys Police said "numerous windows", fire extinguishers and a ...

Long before the Oracle shopping centre we know today, the site was home to a 17th‑century workhouse created to support Reading’s struggling cloth industry. Maisie Marston explores its history.

British workhouses were intimately bound up with slavery and imperialism throughout the early modern period, new research from Cardiff University finds. Subscribe to our newsletter for the latest ...