What was life like in the Belfast workhouse?

An introduction to admission, diet, work and leaving the workhouse.

Belfast’s first feminist

The forgotten burial place of tens of thousands of Belfast’s working-class people in the nineteenth century and why I think it’s time we remembered it.

The gruesome story of how Belfast supplied the human cadaver trade in the early 19th century

The story of Ireland’s only hurricane and how it got its name.

An account of Ireland’s last witchcraft trial - Islandmagee, 1711.

A guide to the burial grounds of Belfast in the early nineteenth century and where the poor of the town were laid to rest.

A remarkable Belfast woman who made a huge difference in the lives of the poor of Belfast and beyond.

The origins of Belfast’s workhouse

A brief history of birthing stools

Belfast’s first maternity hospital - ahead of its time and unusually clean.