Wealthy doctors, engineers and working class people all lived in the "slums" of Victorian era Manchester, new research has revealed. The study by Cambridge University Historian, Emily Chung, used data ...

Captured forever in poignant black and white photographs, these new images have emerged documenting the hardship and joys of street life in Manchester more than 50 years ago. Shirley Baker was the ...

Generations packed into mould-ridden rooms infested with slugs, cockroaches and rats – this was the grim reality for entire communities living in squalid housing in Greater Manchester. During the ...

My guest today, Diana Mitlin, is a professor of global urbanism at the Global Development Institute at the University of Manchester. Much of her work focuses on issues surrounding informal urban ...