Online exhibition highlights lives of people in workhouses
The stories of Ripon Union Workhouse female inmates form part of a major new online exhibition VOLUNTEERS from a city museum have been working on a major new online exhibition about people in the workhouse system. Ripon Museum Trust volunteers from The Workhouse Museum have worked on the exhibition presented by The Workhouse Network called More Than Oliver Twist and presented on the Google Arts & Culture platform. The More Than Oliver Twist project set out to discover the real stories of people in the workhouse system through the 1881 census returns. Researched and interpreted by volunteer researchers at six sites across The Workhouse Network, the stories have been used to create an online exhibition, with work from artists Morgan Tipping and Mel Rye, exploring six of these lives and the contemporary echoes of their historic experiences.