Poverty levels, junk food consumption and cuts to social services have been blamed for a resurgence of Victorian-era diseases such as malnutrition, scurvy and gout. Compared to data collected in 2011, ...

Britain is becoming a “grim” place to live with people suffering Victorian-era diseases, one of the country’s leading public health experts has said. Sir Michael Marmot warned that poverty was ...

London (CNN) — The most disadvantaged people in the United Kingdom are no better-off than they were 15 years ago, according to a new report, which finds a “yawning gap between those who can get by and ...

Researchers from LSE and Lancaster University have recreated Victorian London in the form of a Minecraft world build. Called ...

Gertrude Himmelfarb, a prominent historian who praised Victorian virtues and argued for their relevance to current political debates over poverty and other social issues, died Monday at her home in ...

I have a new favorite show and it’s called Victorian Slum House. Yeah, go ahead, and laugh. I know you want to. I get it. At first glance, Victorian Slum House looks like a perfect satire of a PBS ...

Experience created by academics and Minecraft builders gives an insight into what life was like in Victorian London.

What could be more romantic than a Victorian cottage garden, picturesque with poppies, cornflowers, wild roses and drifts of bluebells? For scores of late 19th Century English watercolorists, the ...