Over 1,000 women ended up in a Dutch state workhouse between 1886 and 1934. This was a place for vagrants, beggars and drunkards: people who were said to be too lazy to work. Who were the women who ...

Over 600 of these Dickensian semi-prisons were built following the 1834 Poor Law Amendment Act which aimed to make life much harder for the able-bodied poor. Three workhouses were built in 1066 ...