Work, shopping, church and the pub kept different classes apart far more than 'residential segregation' in 1850s Manchester, undermining key assumptions about the Industrial Revolution. Historians ...

In the heart of the modern East End of London, a Victorian slum has been recreated and a group of 21st-century people are moving in. Michael Mosley joins them to tell the extraordinary story of how ...

The ‘slums’ of Victorian Manchester actually housed doctors and engineers, a new study reveals, but daily life still kept ...

Wealthy doctors, engineers and working class people all lived in the "slums" of Victorian era Manchester, new research has revealed. The study by Cambridge University Historian, Emily Chung, used data ...

The beginning of May means we are that much closer to Memorial Day cookouts, sleepy summer days and a boatload of summer TV shows. But, at least for the next couple of weeks, TV options will seem to ...

It takes a lot of arrogance for a contemporary person living in the Western world to think that they could slip back to an era before they were born and easily survive. Which is why reality shows like ...

It has been more than 50 years since bulldozers began the demolition of one of Tyneside’s most iconic communities. Rows of Victorian slum terraced housing were torn down and hundreds of families were ...

Follow participants as they move into an 1860s tenement made up of sparse rooms, a shared water pump and outhouses. They seek to make a living by matchbox making, wood turning and the rag trade, work ...

Horrific footage shows how rats have infested a whole block of flats in London and turned it into a 'Victorian Britain hellhole slum'. Terrified residents are fleeing the block and moving out after ...

A new study shows that more than 60% of buildings housing the wealthiest classes also housed unskilled laborers. The post Doctors and engineers ‘lived in the slums’ of Victorian Manchester appeared ...