Step into the past to picture the early days of Parliament and the 1890s Victorian neighbourhood it sat in, with help from ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The urban climacteric -- The prevalence of slums -- The treason of the state -- Illusions of self-help -- Haussmann in the tropics -- Slum ecology -- SAPing the Third World -- A surplus humanity? -- ...

Former Times Reporter The Tampa Bay Times e-Newspaper is a digital replica of the printed paper seven days a week that is available to read on desktop, mobile, and our app for subscribers only. To ...