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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I have a new favorite show and it’s called Victorian Slum House. Yeah, go ahead, and laugh. I know you want to. I get it. At first glance, Victorian Slum House looks like a perfect satire of a PBS ...

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 ...

“The 1900s” – Observe the social changes the slum dwellers face as they move into the 20th century. A few families prosper, but others continue to face the poverty endemic in Britain. See what steps ...

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 ...

What's this? A reality show from PBS? Yes. Well, sort of. Victorian Slum House debuts at 7 p.m. today on AETN. It seems like a reality show, although nobody gets voted off the slum and the final ...

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 ...