CAN YOU HELP?

The Workhouse Network is seeking family historians to work from home on its project ‘More Than Oliver Twist’. Volunteers will research the lives of inmates from workhouses around the country using the 1871 and 1881 censuses.

The project will result in a database of individual and family biographies, plus a digital exhibition. Volunteers will need their own access to the censuses, and will be provided with advice and guidance. Six heritage sites around the UK, including Gressenhall Workhouse (pictured), are involved in the project. The network encourages diversity within the volunteer community to tell the stories of workhouse inmates appropriately. Visit workhousenetwork.org/more-than-olivertwist or email gressenhall.museum@ norfolk.gov.uk for more information.