📣Applications to our Public History Prize are open!

The Pamela Cox Public History Prize (open to PGRs and ECRs) recognises activities that enhance public understanding of social and cultural history✨

👉More info & apply here: socialhistory.org.uk/prizes/publi...

⏰Deadline 24 March 2025 🗃️

Built in 1824, Southwell Workhouse (Nottinghamshire) inspired many of the deterrent, harsh, and punitive elements of the New Poor Law.

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#OtD 10 Feb 1913 suffragettes in the UK smashed windows at the Reform, Carlton, Junior Carlton, Oxford, and Cambridge Clubs, and also at the residence of Prince Christian. Exhibition cases at the Royal Scottish Museum were also broken stories.workingclasshistory.c...

Built in the late-eighteenth century, the Cleveland Street Workhouse was used by the parish of St Paul in Covent Garden #London to house the poor.

Did this workhouse inspire the work of Charles Dickens? He lived on the same road in 1815-16 & 1828-31.
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we're thrilled to share that we've started the year with a new addition to our team! he's extremely smart, capable, charming, persuasive, and boasts a wealth of museum experience