Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. One family sends the father off to work in a church-bell foundry to earn his keep while the others sit home gluing matchboxes ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. 'Victorian Slum House,' 7 p.m. Tuesdays on PBS • Four stars (out of four) • thirteen.org ...

“The 1880s” – Despite high unemployment and intolerable conditions, people flock to London, desperate for work. When curious upper-class visitors are permitted to visit the slum as tourists, the ...

BBC Two is taking East London back to the Victorian era for its new show The Slum. Families will experience what life in the capital was like back in the 1860s as part of the living history series.