Originally a large mews house from the 19th century and later an upholstery business before being converted to a family home ...

Small communities can practise direct democracy: people meet and decide, or vote, on decisions concerning them all. In large modern societies, it operates instead as representative democracy within ...

Although clearly a man of the left, Leigh (like Dickens) is less interested in society than human nature. Some of his ...

The Victorian Era was a time of the Industrial Revolution, with authors Charles Dickens and Charles Darwin, the railway and ...

When it comes to Jane Austen-inspired books and movies, Helen Fielding’s book-turned-movie “Bridget Jones’s Diary” is one of the most recognizable. Not only did the novel help shape the modern ...

For those living in a middle-class household with only about 10% of the recommended savings in the bank, this could mean severe delays in retirement planning or a huge downshift in lifestyle ...

As we get closer to the 2025 NFL draft, we're starting to get a clearer picture of the best prospects in the class. We had the 2024 college football season to size up the top talents. Then we had ...

As economic pressures mount, middle-class families across the U.S. are finding it increasingly difficult to cover essential living expenses while maintaining a comfortable lifestyle. Rising costs ...

Experts have told households the best ways they should be using their dishwasher to save money and keep costs down. Dishwashers are generally cheaper to use than doing washing up by hand as they use ...

Electronics and auto manufacturing are key industries. The middle class in Mexico is still small by global standards but it was at 45% of the population 2016 and it's growing. The income levels ...

I am not usually one to go out of my comfort zone with food, so what better way to try some iconic British chocolates ... was that of perfume without the class, and again overwhelmingly like ...