The Victorian-era factory was discovered in a part of the city once famous for its steel industry, which at its height employed 150,000 people. Researchers excavating the site discovered two well ...

It was a verdant, ferny hue — hint of forest, flash of emerald — a vegetal contrast to the foggy mists and factory-smudged ... and groundwater. Victorian-era physicians prescribed arsenic ...

But which came first, the factories or the proletariat ... England cut back on coal decades ago, but Victorian smog casts a long shadow. Source: “East-side story: historical pollution ...

Phossy Jaw was a hideously disfiguring disease caused by working with phosphorous without the usual safeguards found in no Victorian-era factory ever. The strike was a PR disaster of epic ...

Save guides, add subjects and pick up where you left off with your BBC account. Queen Victoria ruled the United Kingdom from 1837 - 1901. The Victorian period was a period of great social change ...

D'Incecco started her career as a designer for an Italian shoemaker working directly with factories ... doesn't necessarily romanticize the Victorian era — "obviously things are better now ...