Work, shopping, church and the pub kept different classes apart far more than 'residential segregation' in 1850s Manchester, undermining key assumptions about the Industrial Revolution. Historians ...

Wealthy doctors and engineers lived in the "slums" of Victorian Manchester alongside the working class, reveals new research. The findings undermine the idea that different classes are clustered in ...

An 1838 print showing people in and outside a terraced house in Manchester, above and below street level. Work, shopping, church and the pub kept different classes apart far more than ‘residential ...

Wealthy doctors, engineers and working class people all lived in the "slums" of Victorian era Manchester, new research has revealed. The study by Cambridge University Historian, Emily Chung, used data ...