Of course, the income gap between the working class and the wealthy often sparks a lot of tension. It not only hinders ...

UK abortion provider BPAS and Cosmopolitan UK have launched a powerful new campaign to decriminalise abortion in England and Wales ...

The Victorian era is one of the most famous periods in all of human history, known for its iconic fashion and love of all things supernatural and paranormal. Many novelists, mangakas, game studios ...

Whether inspired by the leisure class, the working man, or sexy sailors, maritime style has always been defined by graphic clarity, the simplicity of primary colors, and functional tailoring.

Working-class jewellery. As the simplest tattoo to create, dots were hugely popular: over 20,000 convicts wore one or more dots on their arms, hands and even faces. The left side of the body was ...

The director of This Is England, whose mum worked in a fish and chip shop and whose dad was a long-distance lorry driver, has mobilised a small army of working-class talent that includes Graham ...

Works like Tissot's The Convalescent (1872), pictured here, reflect a sense of unease over a modernizing society that was sweeping women up in its fray. Art Gallery of Ontario. Gift of R.B.F. Barr ...

Historic England. What cannot be overlooked is the lack of “ordinary” lower middle-class and working-class homes in this book. London’s Museum of the Home in Shoreditch, which opened in the ...

So it wasn’t all doom and gloom, but life wasn't a positive story for most Victorian working-class people.” Grim city living Between 1800 and 1850, England’s population doubled, and as factories ...

Call the fashion police. Crop tops and sweatpants were certainly not dinner attire back during Queen Victoria’s reign. Dressing for meals remained very much a ritual for the upper class even ...

In fact, many of these Victorian special schools stayed open well into the twentieth century, albeit providing far superior curriculums and opportunities for their pupils. A modern outlook. Nowadays, ...