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...World War Scotland to combat the overcrowding of people and industry in Glasgow, and to take some of the population that was designated to be ‘overspilled’ from the city. The land surrounding Cumbernauld Village, which was situated in the historic county of Dunbartonshire, was designated in 1956, and the aim of Scotland’s urban planners was to create a fully...

...world. He discovered that streets once famed for silk weaving had become a densely populated warren. A single house here contained 60 people, there was barely any sanitation and the streets were filled with human excrement, fostering deadly diseases. Life expectancy for the poorest of Victorian Shoreditch was just 16. The clip is reproduced with permission from the BBC....

...World War, it abandoned the suffrage campaign itself. Emmeline and Christabel Pankhurst ardently supported the war effort and urged all women to do the same. Sylvia did not take their advice and was expelled by her mother and sister for her disobedience. The East London Federation of Suffragettes, was composed of working class women who campaigned for the vote and for...