Coventry is a city ever evolving. Going back almost a thousand years it's been at the forefront of important industries - ...

A Victorian philanthropist who led an "extraordinary life" campaigning for women's and children's rights to health and ...

Much of what we know about Scotland Yard comes from British crime dramas or murder mysteries, but behind the name lies a remarkable story of police innovation. Scotland Yard’s Victorian history is a ...

In a quiet suburb in Croydon, a Victorian Gothic chapel stands as one of the remaining sentinels of Cane Hill Hospital, a sprawling psychiatric facility. The chapel at Chaucer Gardens, one of the few ...

FEW names so instantly conjure up the hansom cabs, gaslights and tawdry streets of Victorian London as that of the mythical cape-shrouded figure armed with a long knife and carrying a black gladstone ...

The Amazon Prime series, 'Carnival Row' envisioned an urban fantasy world populated by mythological creatures treated as refugees ...

The ‘slums’ of Victorian Manchester actually housed doctors and engineers, a new study reveals, but daily life still kept rich and poor neighbours apart. Work, shopping, church and the pub kept ...

I once made a complete numptie of myself when reviewing a movie about the Roman conquest of Britain. How were the invaders able to swan around in hardly any clothes, I wondered, given underfloor ...

A South London council has come under fire for plans to demolish a cherished Victorian shopping parade, with critics claiming the move would make the authority "cultural vandals of the highest order".

In the heart of the modern East End of London, a Victorian slum has been recreated and a group of 21st-century people are moving in. Michael Mosley joins them to tell the extraordinary story of how ...

A duplex penthouse atop a converted Victorian warehouse in London is on the market for £7.45 million (US$9.9 million). The building, which served as a laundry and light industrial warehouse, dates to ...

The Maharashtra Cabinet has approved a scheme to redevelop Mumbai's slums into integrated housing projects, aiming to improve living conditions and urban infrastructure. Additionally, a state-wide ...