some of the bogus ideas about wellness cultivated in 19th century England ... slums, where epidemics raged, stank. The building of a unified network of sewers in the 1850s-70s undoubtedly saved ...

Charles Mowbray, former soldier, master tailor and one of the greatest working-class orators in late Victorian England, had only to look out of his cracked window in London's East End to know this ...

their faces tell a thousand stories of misery in the grim slums of Victorian England. The newly uncovered series of early mugshots of female criminals from the late 19th Century bring to life the ...

There were many and varied ways to die in London in 1801 and doctors seemingly ... Getty Images The slums of the Industrial Revolution were a breeding ground for disease Dr Hussey said: "In ...

Charterhouse Street erased some of the Saffron Hill and Chick Street slums ... two Victorian roads meet at Cambridge Circus, which I find to be the most confusing location in central London.