Reopened Ripon Workhouse Museum links Victorian poverty to modern homelessness

Ripon Workhouse Museum reopens July 21 after a £2.8 million redevelopment. Curator Laura Allan says Victorian-era homelessness causes — alcoholism, mental health, family breakdown, veterans returning from war — are "very similar to today." The site, one of Britain's most complete surviving workhouses, asks visitors whether they could survive it.