Five sets of historical, skeletal human remains consistent with the workhouse era - dating from 1841 to 1918 - have been recovered at the former site of the Mother and Baby Institution in Tuam. The ...

The site once held a prisoner-of-war camp and a cholera hospital before being converted into a Victorian workhouse, archaeologists said. Screengrab from Cotswold Archaeology's Facebook post Along the ...

The UK’s universal credit programme, which aims to roll six forms of state welfare including unemployment and housing benefits into one, was launched in 2010 with the aim of supporting people to work.

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