They were Catholic-run institutions to reform wayward women, known as Magdalens, through strict religious observance and unpaid work. "There's a very long history of the Catholic Church ...

Think back through history, and you will know it. What will this lowest deep—thieves, Magdalens, negroes—do with the light altered through ponderous Church creeds, Baconian theories ...

Sophie Ryder and Johnny Waterworth said they had lost most of their belongings in the blaze, which broke out in Magdalens Close, Ripon, on 16 June. North Yorkshire Fire and Rescue said a gas leak ...

FOR a long time it was one of the old town’s great open spaces, a place where Southampton schoolboys played football, the venue for funfairs and rallies. Marlands, now the site of the Civic ...