From London to Birmingham and Manchester there ... The huge underground maze includes everything from medieval tanneries and Victorian slums to World War 2 air raid shelters and pub cellars ...

In 1894: acerbic Inspector Cutter and naïve Sergeant Bliss — with the help of a feisty journalist and a suave French assassin — follow the trail of murders of retired men who held high stations, while ...

From London to Birmingham and Manchester there is plenty to choose from when it comes to a city break. But there is one place ...

After a bin strike that has run for weeks, rubbish and rats are consuming Birmingham. Have we forgotten our second city?

A new exhibition at the London Museum Docklands spotlights hundreds of mudlarking finds, from Bronze Age tools to Viking ...

To be honest, I was never a sophomore at the University of Wisconsin, which is also the probable reason why I haven’t lived in the “sophomore slums.” (That’s how logic works, right?) You might be ...

It was twenty years after the worst of the Blitz that I first got to know Whitechapel and Stepney, Tower Hamlets’ ancient heartlands. It was 1963, the summer after the coldest winter for a century and ...

It’s all change on the bestseller list, with only one book not newly out in the shops, Rachel Paris’s thriller at No 3. Leaping into top spot is Vanya Insull, aka VJ Cooks, who’s back with ...

Mudlarking, once a trade of the Victorian poor, has evolved into a modern-day hobby that captivates everyday Londoners and history enthusiasts. What began as a desperate means of survival, scouring ...

When two penniless actresses meet in Shanghai at auditions for Ibsen’s A Doll’s House, they quickly become inseparable. But as political upheaval rips through China, their tumultuous ...

Born in the London slums in 1878, Richard Eastwick comes to Australia at age 20, with nothing but a handful of courage and a dream. He acquires land, marries and raises a family, makes loyal ...