The industrial revolution led to a rising standard of living and led cities and towns to expand to accommodate an increasingly wealthy population. ... slums, air pollution, sanitation issues, and ...

Of all the terrible slums created by the Industrial Revolution, Angel Meadow in Manchester was the worst – a violent Dickensian nightmare ridden with crime and disease that even Friedrich Engels ...

The Industrial Revolution of the preceding century had solidified Birmingham's status as an industrial titan, excelling in trade, education, and engineering.

Social Impact: This Revolution supported the rise of new urban centres like Manchester but also indirectly helped in the emergence of terms like slums, nuclear family, urbanization, exploitation ...

Photographs documented here show how much change has taken place on the streets after the demolition of the slums, following slum clearance campaigns. The Industrial Revolution of the previous ...

Thirdly, the growth in slums since the 1980s is both formidable and unprecedented (even though urban slums have existed in Europe since the Industrial Revolution), and the number of slum-dwellers ...

Assassin's Creed Syndicate is the next Assassin's Creed game set in Victorian-era London. Developed by Quebec Studios, AC Syndicate takes place in ...

Deloitte Access Economics consultants, in a major report on productivity, warn that without looking after our city folk, urban areas will become the modern-day equivalents of Industrial Revolution ...

From Oliver Twist to A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens highlighted poverty and squalor. But did he really help change things?

The Industrial Revolution of the preceding century had solidified Birmingham's status as ... However, for those left behind, confined to hastily constructed slum housing from the Revolution era, ...