Last night at 2:17 AM, every child from Mrs. Gandy's class went missing.

People tend to sentimentalise the past, and hanker for a time when the streets weren't clogged up with fuming cars and our lives weren't ruled by the whims of our mobile phones. What they forget, ...

In the event, studying the development of America's greatest city from the bottom up, as it were, made perfect sense. In the mid-19th century, New York was a crude frontier settlement that occupied ...

PANJIM, THE capital of the Indian state of Goa, is known for its pretty churches and Indo-Portuguese homes. But 20 years ago it looked like any other Indian city: filthy. Some 1,500 community ...

📜 England's Broad Street Pump - Part 4 - Extra History John Snow's report on the causes of cholera provided yet more evidence of the dangers of filthy cities. Cities had always been unhealthy places ...

Dan Snow's toxic trilogy climaxed in New York, where he crawled voyeuristically through the rotten core of the Big Apple. It was part Discovery Channel documentary, part Gangs of New York dirty ...