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 ...

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 ...

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

On 16 August 1819 60,000 peaceful protesters gathered in Manchester to demand their rights, only for the day to end in tragedy. Here's what you need to know.

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...