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Wealthy doctors, engineers and working class people all lived in the "slums" of Victorian era Manchester, new research has revealed.

The study by Cambridge University Historian, Emily Chung, used data from a digitised 1851 census to precisely map where people from different social classes lived in the city.

Her study has shown that work, shopping, church and the pub may have done more to keep different classes apart than "residential segregation" in 1850s Manchester.

For years, historians have used Marxism co-founder, Friedrich Engels' observation of "rampant inequality" during his visit in 1842 as their basis of understanding what life was like in Victorian Manchester.

Engels described a scene of different classes residing in separate parts of the industrial city, procl

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