Period drama fans can watch a "perfectly adapted" series for free now. Based on the best-selling novel of the same name, Tess of the D'Urbervilles follows the life of a low-born c ...

Her family had two buckets — one for rinsing plates and cups, the other for rinsing their faces and underarms. ... What would a poor Victorian do?” she recalls. She was left to walk in the mud.

How a poor Victorian woman changed the way we do dinosaur science January 2, 2019 - 1:00 am. Lyme Regis is an ... In Lyme Regis, she and her family opened “Anning’s fossil depot”, ...

During the economic boom years of the 1860s life was tough for the poor, ... breaking labour his forebears would have experienced and the effect on a Victorian family when the main breadwinner was ...

The series, as the narrator Michael Mosley says, "brings the forgotten world of the Victorian poor back to life." In doing so it offers an eye-opening look at the harsh economic and social ...

Victorian courts disproportionally penalised poor families when they heard child neglect cases, a new study suggests. Juries treated parents – particularly mothers – more harshly if they were ...

THOUSANDS of previously unseen Victorian letters and reports revealing the untold history of life in 19th century Victorian workhouses have gone… ...

A reader has emailed me asking if anybody has memories, or family connections of the area of the Ipswich town centre, of tiny poor Victorian housing, in a maze of streets which was cleared in the ...

Poor families relying on Victorian poverty charities for crisis help Citizens Advice in Newcastle is seeing the highest-ever number of people seeking help with rising cost of living and spiralling ...