At Andover workhouse in Hampshire, single women with illegitimate children were forced to wear a yellow stripe across their grey gowns if they wanted to eat.

In 1845 the inmates of Andover workhouse were reported to be so hungry that they were fighting over the shreds of rotting meat and marrow left on the bones which they were made to crush for use as ...

THIS is the time of year when the plight of the less fortunate comes to mind. In 1877 the line “It’s Christmas Day in the workhouse” touched the heart of the nation. It was penned by ...

Peter also researched workhouses further afield, and drew inspiration from the Andover workhouse scandal of the 1840s, which revealed that inmates at a Hampshire workhouse were starved and ...