(MENAFN- The Conversation) 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 ...

Excavations started in preparation for a future housing development slated for ... In 1837, the beginning of the Victorian era, the building was converted into the Stapleton Workhouse ...

At a site that was once a Victorian workhouse in England ... began excavations at the site in preparation for a new housing development. The project was led by Cotswold Archaeology.

These photographs were taken around 1897 at Crumpsall Workhouse ... how Victorian Britain dealt with its poor, sick and people with learning difficulties. In order to qualify for housing at ...

A FORMER Victorian workhouse has been converted into affordable ... to the developers, Broadacres Housing Association. Scott Hill, formerly known as High Hall, comprises 17 two and three-bedroom ...

Many Victorians struggled to understand and explain ... unsanitary and overcrowded housing, low wages, poor diet, insecure employment and the dreaded effects of sickness and old age.

The site once held a prisoner-of-war camp and a cholera hospital before being converted into a Victorian workhouse ... started in preparation for a future housing development slated for the ...