Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. One family sends the father off to work in a church-bell foundry to earn his keep while the others sit home gluing matchboxes ...

I have a new favorite show and it’s called Victorian Slum House. Yeah, go ahead, and laugh. I know you want to. I get it. At first glance, Victorian Slum House looks like a perfect satire of a PBS ...

Ever dreamed of going back to London’s East End in the 19th century, working ’round the clock, wearing the same filthy rags every day and subsisting on the odd scrap of bread? How about watching a ...

As if doing penance for Downton Abbey and Victoria, PBS is now paying attention to the working class with its new reality series, Victorian Slum House. The show scoops up a bunch of “21st-century ...

“It’s a bit bleak isn’t it?” It’s a statement more than a question and an understatement at that. The speaker is Graham, a grandfather who, along with his wife, daughter and two grandchildren are ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Wealthy doctors, engineers and working class people all lived in the "slums" of Victorian era Manchester, new research has ...

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 ...

PBS is taking family history education to a new, slightly cruel level. In the new show "Victorian Slum House," average British families recreate what life was like for Victorian London slum dwellers.