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.

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 ...

Friedrich Engels wrote about squalid conditions in Manchester's 19th Century slums A luxury penthouse flat has apparently been named after one of history's most famous communists. The £2.5m ...

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 ...