From Scrooge to Oliver Twist, these 15 best adaptations based on Charles Dickens' books are movies Victorian era fans need to ...

Victorian-era occupations ...

Briony Jenkinson was a newly divorced single mother. Facing poverty and mental health challenges, she knew something had to ...

School was tough the day after Annie Leutenmayr slept on a park bench in Melbourne’s CBD. But the 17-year-old wasn’t going to ...

Poverty has always been a complex challenge, but our views on it have evolved dramatically over time. For centuries, poverty was seen as a fact of life, with charity considered a moral duty. However, ...

Republicans in the U.S. Senate are sparring over their version of the multitrillion-dollar budget and immigration bill the ...

The notion that people who get government benefits should prove that they deserve them, ideally through paid labor, is now centuries old. This conviction underlay the Victorian workhouses in ...

Keir Starmer is facing tough domestic challenges. He needs to start making sure his government takes decisive actions.

Throughout the history of philanthropy in the arts, the motivations the wealthy can generally be grouped into status, ...

She was born into poverty as an illegitimate daughter of a Scots farm servant in the 19th century. But despite being illiterate and uneducated, Annie Gordon Baillie forged herself a career as one of ...

In June – a traditional month for marriage celebrations – the Tri-Cities Historical Museum (TCHM) is partnering with the historic Lilley Mansion in Spring Lake to host a Victorian Wedding ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica — Prime Minister Andrew Holness has welcomed the recently announced drop in the poverty rate which he says is a result of targeted policies by the Government, validating its ...