Workhouses sprung up all over Britain in the early 1800s as poverty, starvation and disease plagued the country's working ...

Thomas Law, was a British administrator, reformer, and intellectual who significantly influenced British India and the early United States. In India, where he served as collector of revenue for the ...

The Victorian dead body trade was a key part of the development of anatomy and medicine in the 19th and 20th century, without ...

Staffordshire Archives and Heritage in association with Keele University is working to devise an online dictionary of poor-law biography. This will include the life stories of ordinary people in ...

The comedian Louis C.K. has a bit about the word Jew being an unusual word—it can be both the perfectly correct term for a ...

Today it’s hard to think of the book’s cruel overseers as being progressive. But the Poor Law of 1834 was considered a great liberal victory, one that would segregate the indebted poor and ...

In 2004, six movies starring Jude Law came out in a three-month span, turning him into unfair shorthand for Hollywood’s failure to launch new stars. Photo: Paramount/Courtesy Everett Collection ...

As the National Trust celebrates 130 years on Sunday, MailOnline takes a look at the bizarre sites and properties that you ...

This measure is often more insightful than income, as it reveals your financial stability and whether you’re poor, middle class or rich. Be Aware: I’m a Retired Boomer: 3 Things I Wish I Had ...

These norms are referred to as international migration law. In response to a lack of centralized and easily accessible information on international migration law, IOM has expanded its internal legal ...

He said the policeman should be released if Okoya's sons would not be punished for their offence. The critic stated that if the EFCC did not pick up the case, he would assume that the laws in Nigeria ...

The Constitution enshrines our collective responsibility to one another, and the 2025 Law Day theme urges us to take pride in a Constitution that bridges our differences to bring us together as a ...