An article looking into the living conditions of the urban poor in the 1800s. The 1800s was a time of enormous change. The industrial revolution changed Britain's urban landscape forever.
In the late 19th century, England was known for its wealth, but not everyone shared in its prosperity. Even though it was one of the richest countries, many neighborhoods, especially…
SLUMPED bare-foot in dirty alleyways and wearing rags, children living in Victorian slums huddle together to shield themselves from the Scottish cold. The bleak images are part of an unearthed set …
It was the worst slum in Britain: a maze of rotting Victorian tenements plagued by poverty, brutality and sexual promiscuity. Yet its crime-ridden streets were SAFER than today’s.
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Just four miles from the centre of London Limehouse is now a luxurious area between the City and Canary Wharf.
Victorian slum children.
In the late 19th century, England was known for its wealth, but not everyone shared in its prosperity. Even though it was one of the richest countries, many neighborhoods, especially…
It was the height of the British Empire. From London, Queen Victoria ruled over large parts of the world.
Newham Council in east London has handed out 42 enforcement notices to slum property owners in 18 months and the growing problem is especially bad in the borough.
Our visual image of Victorian London is largely fixated on its sordidness—cramped streets, dark alleys, desolate slums, overcrowding, and i...
The writer Richard Rowe vividly described life in a London slum. But did the Folly even exist? And if not, where did the name come from?
NOSTALGIA: Slums, poor and workhouses of Liverpool
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In the 19th century, the capital of the greatest empire the world had ever seen was squalid, choked by soot, and riddled with disease.
Images of the squalor and sadness of Victorian life.
It was the height of the British Empire. From London, Queen Victoria ruled over large parts of the world.
An appeal is launched to trace the families featured in a series of pictures taken in some of England's poorest and most deprived areas in the 1960s and 1970s.
I believe that colourising images can allow a modern audience to engage better with the subject, especially in an age where we see thousands of images on a news feed every day.
Inheritance figures from the ONS show the UK remains a country where those who least need it receive the most.
The photos were taken by Scottish photographer John Thomson and give a glimpse into the daily grind of life in the capital over 150 years ago. Eleven of Thomson's images have been colourised.
