Alice Reagan, Associate Professor of History, Northern Virginia Community College, gives a talk on the Occoquan Suffrage Prisoners. Photo by Steve Hibbard.

Honoring Suffragists in Lorton Workhouse Prison Museum holds bell-ringing ceremony, shows video in honor of 16 suffragists who were imprisoned there.

OCCOQUAN, VA — Visitors will descend upon Occoquan for one of its major events of the year, the annual Riverfest & Craft Show. The event will take place Saturday and Sunday, from 10 a.m. to 5 p ...

Mother-of-four Mary Higgs went undercover to expose the awful conditions in the early 1900s.

In 1904, a woman left her terraced house in Oldham, disguised in old clothes and pretending to be destitute. She travelled to a common lodging house and what she found there left her horrified. This ...

Mother-of-four Mary Higgs went undercover to expose the awful conditions in the early 1900s.

A former workhouse in a Northumberland town has been put up for sale. The prominent site on the Corbridge Road in Hexham is being marketed by the Landwood Group, with the asking price standing at ...

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