As if doing penance for Downton Abbey and Victoria, PBS is now paying attention to the working class with its new reality series, Victorian Slum House. The show scoops up a bunch of “21st-century ...

Ken Follett's Next Epic Heads to Victorian Britain, Where Strict Morals Meet Secret Passions NEW YORK (AP) — Ken Follett's next historical epic is a story of forbidden romance set during a time of ...

Work, shopping, church and the pub kept different classes apart far more than 'residential segregation' in 1850s Manchester, undermining key assumptions about the Industrial Revolution. Historians ...

In the heart of the modern East End of London, a Victorian slum has been recreated and a group of 21st-century people are moving in. Michael Mosley joins them to tell the extraordinary story of how ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Ken Follett’s next historical epic is a story of forbidden romance set during a time of official propriety, the Victorian age. Follett’s “The Deep and Secret Things” will be published ...