Work, shopping, church and the pub kept different classes apart far more than 'residential segregation' in 1850s Manchester, ...

A new study shows that more than 60% of buildings housing the wealthiest classes also housed unskilled laborers. The post ...

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

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

The Channel 5 period piece "The Hardacres" is set in Victorian England, but speaks to modern experiences and attitudes.

One January night in 1866, the London journalist James Greenwood went slumming. Disguised as a pauper, he entered the Lambeth workhouse to document conditions in a ward for indigent men and boys. The ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Wealthy doctors, engineers and working class people all lived in the "slums" of Victorian era Manchester, new research has ...