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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 ...

BBC Two is taking East London back to the Victorian era for its new show The Slum. Families will experience what life in the capital was like back in the 1860s as part of the living history series.

As if doing penance for Downton Abbey and Victoria, PBS is now paying attention to the working class with its new reality series, Victorian Slum House. The show scoops up a bunch of “21st-century ...