It is from Charles Dickens, a brilliant journalist as well as a novelist of genius, that we largely draw our picture of the darker reaches of Victorian ... of the daily life of the impoverished ...

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A Thousand Blows is a new TV show that takes viewers inside London's underground boxing world — and one of its most notorious ...

The World Health Organisation has flagged the disease, once rampant in Victorian Britain, as the "world's leading cause of death from a single infectious agent". Despite England's low TB rates ...

Alexander Anderson was cremated in Canley, Coventry, in 1956 but his ashes have never been claimed The ashes of a man born in Victorian times ... from Heart of England Co-op Funerals in the ...

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Valentine’s Day cards are known to be sweet, but in Victorian England, cheaply made ‘mock valentines’ with sour sentiments became all the rage. We asked an expert to speak about their impact on ...