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, 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 ...

An 1838 print showing people in and outside a terraced house in Manchester, above and below street level. Work, shopping, church and the pub kept different classes apart far more than ‘residential ...

University of Cambridge historian Emily Chung discovered that Manchester was not nearly as divided into rich and poor enclaves as Engels had suggested.

These sorts of long lead times will make it difficult to deliver homes — or even have them coming out of the ground — within ...

A mural depicting a town's history and participation in the Peterloo Massacre has been vandalised in a bizarre attack. The 40 ...

Tom Bloxham, founder and chairman of Urban Splash, has spoken to Insider about establishing the pioneering development business which has been transforming neighbourhoods and unloved ...

Long queues in the rain, daily four-hour trips in a public taxi, the constant threat of road accidents, and nearly having to ...

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

The big red MAGA-style baseball caps emblazoned with the slogan ‘build, baby, build’ were a striking feature of the recent ...

His well-taken volley hadn't just ended his painful six-month goal drought; it had effectively sealed the Serie A title. "It ...

Birmingham’s three story ‘back-to-back’ housing, the remainder of which are maintained on Hurst Street by the National Trust and can be visited, were extremely cramped and access to running water and ...