Beneath the streets of great cities lies a world of secrets and ancient memories. The Subterranean Tourist is your guide to ...

Hedges was known for his conviction that photography can be a powerful tool for social change, and for his campaigns with the ...

Not all Victorian streets are equally off-putting. Charing Cross Road, for example, was developed around the same time as Shaftesbury Avenue (1870s).

It’s like I’m living in the Victorian slums era. I have to double pay – I pay for the rent, and then I’m paying for the hotel, because when I get sick, it’s just not safe. “The council ...

Coinciding with the Manchester to London Euston line electrification, Oxford Road's old buildings were demolished, and the station rebuilt, opening on September 12, 1960.

The weekly magazine “Household Words” reported the 1853 death of a 3-year-old from typhoid fever in a London slum contaminated by an open cesspool. But better housing was no guarantee against ...

The weekly magazine “Household Words” reported the 1853 death of a 3-year-old from typhoid fever in a London slum contaminated by an open cesspool. But better housing was no guarantee against ...

To do so, the slum-dwellers try their hands at various dull, repetitive, dirty jobs with varying levels of success. But they’re living the dream! Many Victorian-era jobs were downright dangerous.

"We are in 2024, we are not in a Victorian slum, and that's how it feels." Sewage drains began overflowing when the River Lambourn burst its banks. It left r oads submerged, gardens unusable and ...

Slumming For Centuries. Slum tourism is not a new phenomenon, although much has changed since its beginning. “Slumming” was added to the Oxford English Dictionary in the 1860s, meaning “to ...