Dire poverty could usher in Victorian-era inequality By Hanna Ziady, CNN 4 minute read Updated 11:10 AM EST, Mon December 11, 2023 Link Copied! Shoppers pass a homeless person on ...

Family historians and academics from around the world can now access almost 12,000 records detailing the treatment of children admitted to the Glasgow Hospital for Sick Children from 1883, when ...

The film explores the Victorian era in England during Queen Victoria's reign (1837-1901) and its reflection in the works of Charles Dickens. It highlights the contrasts of the time, including ...

A United Nations report on poverty in the United Kingdom has painted a damning picture of a nation where “compassion” for the poorest has been replaced with a “mean-spirited” approach ...

How Victorian Workhouses Changed Charity. Posted: April 29, 2025 | Last updated: July 10, 2025. Poverty has always been a complex challenge, but our views on it have evolved dramatically over time.

Teachers say they are seeing "Victorian conditions" with pupils arriving at school hungry and not wearing the right clothes needed for the weather. The NASUWT teachers' union says schools and ...

Poverty levels, junk food consumption and cuts to social services have been blamed for a resurgence of Victorian-era diseases such as malnutrition, scurvy and gout. Compared to data collected in ...

This Victorian-era disease detective offers clues. By examining patterns of life and death at the neighborhood level, John Snow found solutions to the inequalities of segregation and poverty.

The most disadvantaged people in the United Kingdom are no better-off than they were 15 years ago, according to a new report, which finds a “yawning gap between those who can get by and those ...