About 38% of children in London live in relative poverty, compared with 29% in England as a whole London has England’s highest levels of child poverty and most extreme concentrations of hardship, data ...

In the second half of the nineteenth century, Victorian London was convulsed by fear of its own poor. How did that fear reshape charity, social policy, and the relationship between the classes? First ...

Most of us, when we think of Victorian London, think of the work of Charles Dickens. Historian Judith Flanders' uses Dickens' words to paint a... In September 1777, Samuel Johnson declared to his ...