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

Instead, Saltaire’s spacious roads are set out in a neat grid formation and are lined with tidy rows of terraces. There are ...

A Victorian philanthropist who led an "extraordinary life" campaigning for women's and children's rights to health and ...

History credits the Victorians for their grand — and enduring — schemes but we need our eyes on the future to emulate them ...

That still implies over a thousand churches are facing imminent closure, and a cluster of thorny issues have recently made church maintenance more difficult. The high rates of inflation after the ...

Migration has transformed Leicester from a dull provincial market town into the vibrant capital of Asia in Britain ...

Memories have been shared of one of Bristol's inner city suburbs before its reinvention in the 1950s. Barton Hill is still ...

By contrast, the chancellor of the exchequer, Geoffrey Howe, suggested to Thatcher that the ‘option of managed decline’ ...

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 ...

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 ...

Wealthy doctors, engineers and working class people all lived in the "slums" of Victorian era Manchester, new research has revealed. The study by Cambridge University Historian, Emily Chung, used data ...