Does industrial concentration shape the life and death of cities? We identify settlements from historical maps of England and Wales (1790–1820), isolate exogenous variation in their late 19th-century ...

From 'Moonlight' to 'Parasite,' super-long documentaries to superhero epics — our picks for the greatest movies of the past ...

Beneath the former Broadmarsh Shopping Centre are the last remnants of Drury Hill, a street in the former 19th Century slums of Narrow Marsh.

Between 40% and 50% of children didn’t live past 5 in the US during the 19th century. Popular authors like Charles Dickens documented the common but no less gutting grief of losing a child.

The mines closed, and by the end of the 19th century, the mountain became a refuge for impoverished people — formerly enslaved Blacks, some whites and American Indians— who took advantage of ...

Now almost totally lost under bulldozers and wrecking balls, Leicester’s 19 century terraced homes were the ‘social housing’ of the Victorian era. When built in the mid-1800s, the city’s ...

While the area remained relatively poor, it never again fell into outright poverty. Peabody housing on Old Pye Street, which replaced the slum dwellings in the late 19th century The Devil's Acre today ...

What Brazil’s 19th-century rubber crash could teach today’s oil drillers Two Brazilian booms bookmark the history of the car ...

Despite being one of the richest countries in the world, England was also home to some of the most destitute neighborhoods, with 35 percent of Londoners living in poverty at the end of the 19th ...

‌ The picture which could finally unlock one family's Titanic mystery In the mid 19th Century Red Bank became the centre of Jewish working-class life in the city.

Also in the 19th century, a Catholic parochial school system was introduced as an alternative to state education. It wasn't until a century later that secondary education was offered to students.