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Being poor in Liverpool ... an adult to undertake. Some children would struggle to find even these unenviable tasks so would resort to selling what they could on a street. Failing that some ...
From bedraggled youngsters posing on the kerb to others standing around a fountain, this remarkable series of photographs reveals the desperate lives of poor children in Victorian Britain.
Dr. Hawkins noted that respiratory problems and tubercular disease were rife among the young Glaswegian patients because of the poor ... Street, Evelina and Alexandra hospitals for children ...
Liverpool's status as one of the world's major ports created an underclass of forgotten street children ... harsh on the poor and vulnerable in Victorian Britain. Women and children were often ...
He picked Eldon Street ... Victorian Darlaston and the Black Country. "It's not a book about buildings or the great and the good of Darlaston, it's about the ordinary, working men, women and ...
A series of extraordinary black and white photographs of Victorian ... the poor, on the streets, the nomads, the hustlers looking for another customer. In one photograph known as "The Street ...
SACRAMENTO – A home on the Grid in Sacramento went up in flames late Sunday night. The scene was on U Street, between 15th and 16th streets at a Victorian building that Sacramento Fire officials ...
Sumptuous, dazzling and glorious seem barely adequate as descriptors of “Poor Things,” a two-hour-and-20-minute cinematic fable of self-discovery. Writer-director Yorgos Lanthimos, the dryly ...
A highlight of the night was the tree lighting ceremony ... people were dressed warmly and fashionably to get in the spirit of the Victorian Street Walk. The event is not possible without the ...
Idaho health authorities have released a warning about a steep increase in cases of a highly contagious Victorian-era disease ... of which have occurred in children, who are particularly ...
A fascinating and rare set of hospital records dating from Victorian times has been put online. The records tell the stories of poor, sick children who were admitted to Glasgow Hospital for Sick ...