A new project has repaired, photographed and shared online forgotten maps of Manchester’s slums, which had been overlooked for ... area in a key period of change towards the end of the 19th century.

Teaching 19th-century English literature ... 50% through the early 20th century for children living in the poorest slums. Threats from disease were extensive. Tuberculosis killed an estimated ...

A history of the slum Dharavi has its roots in the late 19th century, as a hub for the leather tanning business. The area, built out of a swamp, was populated primarily by Muslims and lower-caste ...

In the last two decades of the 19th century, the dance known as the tango emerges out of the immigrant culture of Argentina's dockside slums. The tango fuses New World, African, and European dance ...