At the end of the 19th century, two men carried out research into the lives of people living in poverty in the UK and improved public understanding of links between poverty and poor health.

In the mid-19th Century, the United States saw the emergence of poor houses as a modern solution to poverty. These institutions provided shelter and work for impoverished individuals in exchange ...

Overcrowding, dirt, poverty and disease went hand in hand at the century's start, but by the 1900s energetic social reformers had comprehensively turned things round. In the early 19th century ...