Review: Poverty of Dickens’ London brought home in Oliver Twist ... us effortlessly into the grinding poverty and injustice ...

A record number of children in London were living in poverty last year, according to "heartbreaking" new figures. It comes as charities urged the Government to stop planned welfare reform ...

When our founder Thomas Barnardo first started supporting children in Victorian East London, many of the children he helped were experiencing poor ... Today, one in four children is living in poverty, ...

NARRATOR:'In the 1960's people in the East end of London were still living with the ... who took photos of poverty and overcrowding as part of a social change campaign for the Ilford Recorder ...

Victorian London from 1850 to 1900 is the biggest city in the world.

Rising migration has been blamed for a surge in the killer Victorian disease tuberculosis ... though this rises to almost one in every 5,000 people in London. Potential symptoms of TB include ...

It does not necessarily reflect the view of The Herald. An effort to tackle child poverty will “fall flat on its face” if the two-child limit is not scrapped, campaigners warned ahead of the ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. A leading charity has accused ministers of trying to play down the extent to which benefits cuts will ...

The number of children living in poverty across the UK has reached a new record high, according to figures from the Department for Work and Pensions. Some 4.45m children were estimated to be in ...