The Workhouse Network brings together museums, heritage organisations, archives and universities interested in welfare history. |
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In our new digital exhibition, More Than Oliver Twist, experience, through audio and visual interpretation, the stories of people from 1881, alongside a set of contemporary responses to these histories by people who experienced the welfare and institutions of today.
Explore over 300 of these biographies of the poor in the largest known free, online database of biographies of the poor. |
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COVID-19: we are continuing to work during the pandemic to share historical and contemporary stories of welfare.
We have published our More Than Oliver Twist digital exhibition.
We are planning a new grant application to allow us to continue our valuable work in the future.
We have published our More Than Oliver Twist digital exhibition.
We are planning a new grant application to allow us to continue our valuable work in the future.
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Our ProjectsMore Than Oliver Twist, 2019 -2021
The More Than Oliver Twist project provided training for six workhouse sites to research the lives of inmates in their institutions in the 1881 census. From this research, they created a digital exhibition, More Than Oliver Twist. The project is funded by Arts Council England and supported by Nottingham Trent University and The National Archives. |
Photo credits: St. James', Leeds
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