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 ...

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Once a notorious slum, this inner city area is now on the brink of a £4 billion transformation that will combine a New York ...

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 ...

“Jackson” (7:30 p.m., Showtime): This award-winning documentary provides an intimate look at the lives of three women caught in the complex issues surrounding access to abortion in the Deep South. Set ...

In the classic Preston Sturges comedy “Sullivan’s Travels,” the movie-director hero (Joel McCrea) plans to hit the road as a Depression-era hobo so he can gather firsthand knowledge of want and need.

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.

“It’s a bit bleak isn’t it?” It’s a statement more than a question and an understatement at that. The speaker is Graham, a grandfather who, along with his wife, daughter and two grandchildren are ...

Wealthy doctors and engineers lived in the "slums" of Victorian Manchester alongside the working class, reveals new research. The findings undermine the idea that different classes are clustered in ...

Ever dreamed of going back to London’s East End in the 19th century, working ’round the clock, wearing the same filthy rags every day and subsisting on the odd scrap of bread? How about watching a ...