Poverty has always been a complex challenge, but our views on it have evolved dramatically over time. For centuries, poverty ...

Leiden University Ph.D. candidate Marian Weevers has investigated. The state workhouses originated from the beggars' colonies that Suzanna Jansen, among others, writes about in her bestseller "Het ...

On the one hand were the rich who enjoyed comfort and feasting at Christmas, and on the other were children forced to live in dreadful conditions in workhouses. Scrooge refuses to give money In ...