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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Wealthy doctors, engineers and working class people all lived in the "slums" of Victorian era Manchester, new research has ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. One family sends the father off to work in a church-bell foundry to earn his keep while the others sit home gluing matchboxes ...

BBC2 has ordered the living history series The Slum from London-based Wall to Wall. The tentatively titled five-part series, which is scheduled to broadcast later this year, will follow modern-day ...

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 ...