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

Hundreds of 'slum-like' homes still infested with damp and mould despite London council coming out of special measures - ...

London : Charles Baker & Co./Wikimedia Commons. It could be argued that Victorian England marked the beginning of modern slums, as the influx of large numbers of workers into city centers meant that ...

East End, London in the late 19th century East End in the 1800s was a vast, dirty, overcrowded slum struggling to cope with the sheer number of people living there. Much of this, according to Edwards, ...

Its shell roofs and timber-structure design are so unique that Historic England granted it Grade II listed status in 1995. Manchester Oxford Road Station, 1992 (Image: Ben Brooksbank, CC BY-SA 2.0 ) ...

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.

Queen Victoria's Slum is a reality series that drops modern people into a reconstructed Victorian slum house in London’s East End to make ends meet - and it is totally my new jam. I love a bit ...

In the slum clearance programme after World War Two, her grandparents were relocated to Essex, along with thousands of other people living in dilapidated two-up, two-down Victorian houses who ...