Forcibly removed from the Chagos Archipelago more than 40 years ago, Chagos islanders protest outside the High Court in ...

The bustling streets and squares above conceal a labyrinth of over 800 caves, each echoing with history, while above ground ...

Between 40% and 50% of children didn’t live past 5 in the US during the 19th century. ... reported the 1853 death of a 3-year-old from typhoid fever in a London slum contaminated by an open ...

Slum tourism sparks considerable debate around an uncomfortable moral dilemma. ... Oxford and Cambridge Universities opened study centers in the late 19th-century to inform social policy, ...

Leicester's long lost Victorian slums in 13 Mercury archive photos Whole streets were reduced to rubble. ... where people try to do the impossible and live 20th century lives in 19th century homes ...

For most of the 19th century nearly all of the world’s rubber came from Brazil, home of Hevea brasiliensis, the Pará rubber tree. Manaus, a city reachable only by sailing 1,450km up the Amazon ...

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 ...

But, by the late 19th and early 20th Century Red Bank was changing again. As their fortunes improved many Jewish families had moved north into Cheetham Hill, Prestwich and Broughton.

Statue of Liberty, New York Harbour, late 19th century. Photograph from Portfolio of Photographs, of Famous Scenes, Cities and Paintings by John L Stoddard, published by the Werner Company.

Among the hundreds of thousands of immigrants arriving in New York over the course of the 19th century was 21-year-old Danish carpenter Jacob Riis, who arrived in the city in 1870. With few ...