I have a new favorite show and it’s called Victorian Slum House. Yeah, go ahead, and laugh. I know you want to. I get it. At first glance, Victorian Slum House looks like a perfect satire of a PBS ...

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 ...

“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 ...

If you're sick of people who don't know how good they have it, check out 'Queen Victoria's Slum'. Queen Victoria's Slum is a reality series that drops modern people into a reconstructed Victorian slum ...

“The 1900s” – Observe the social changes the slum dwellers face as they move into the 20th century. A few families prosper, but others continue to face the poverty endemic in Britain. See what steps ...

BBC2 has ordered the living history series The Slum from London-based Wall to Wall. The tentatively titled five-part series, which is scheduled to broadcast later this year, will follow modern-day ...

PBS is taking family history education to a new, slightly cruel level. In the new show "Victorian Slum House," average British families recreate what life was like for Victorian London slum dwellers.

Follow participants as they move into an 1860s tenement made up of sparse rooms, a shared water pump and outhouses. They seek to make a living by matchbox making, wood turning and the rag trade, work ...

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.