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 ...

It's a dark and humble reminder of our area’s recent past – when thousands of Greater Manchester residents were forced to reside in crumbling, disease-ridden slums. Industrialisation swept into ...

Generations packed into mould-ridden rooms infested with slugs, cockroaches and rats – this was the grim reality for entire communities living in squalid housing in Greater Manchester. During the ...

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

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 ...