London’s literary landscape is littered with unforgotten words. Some real, some the stuff of legends. During a Bloomsbury pub ...

Both "Oliver Twist" and "Hard Times" highlight Dickens's critique of Victorian social ... in a corrupt London, illustrating themes of childhood, crime, and poverty amidst societal injustice.

As an unmarried woman, she faces poverty without a husband to provide for her - unless she takes on the ... known as `The Duke', and the pair begin to tackle the crimes and mysteries of Victorian ...

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, ...

Sadiq Khan has been given new powers which could lead to pubs and clubs in central London being open for longer this summer ...

Doctors are warning that some diseases from the Victorian era are on the rise again as they are worried that poverty is one of the driving factors behind illness and workload on NHS staff.

The World Bank’s Poverty and Shared Prosperity series provides the latest estimates and trends in global poverty and shared prosperity. The 2022 edition provides the first comprehensive look at the ...