Why did the industrial revolution take place in eighteenth-century Britain and not elsewhere in Europe or Asia? In this convincing new account Robert Allen argues that the British industrial ...

at the birth of the Industrial Revolution, Britain's political and economic climate allowed inventive minds to blossom. The growth of industry and factory towns in Britain. videoThe growth of ...

As the clock struck midnight on Monday, UK time, the birthplace of the industrial revolution marked ... the eight enormous cooling towers no more. Britain, which used coal to thrust its ...

Many of these labourers were children.' Daily Mail 'Britain's industrial revolution - the first in the world - would have never happened without child labour. That's the startling conclusion drawn by ...

The study explores how industrialization and reduced migration costs in 19th century Britain reshaped cultural identities, ...

Britain is the birthplace of the industrial revolution – and remains a leading manufacturing nation today, as well as a world leader in hi-tech sectors such as aerospace. There are 2.6 million ...

Archaeologist Milica Rajic said: "You can see the driving force for Britain's industrial revolution." Live updates and more stories from Yorkshire The change from a farming economy to one ...

Growing numbers of people call Britain’s waterways home. In the last boater census, conducted in 2022 by the Canals and Rivers Trust (CRT), a charity, there were about 35,000 boats on canals in ...

Former investment minister and chairman of Gemcorp Capital, Gerry Grimstone, speaks to Eliot Wilson about the transformative ...

Manchester is renowned as the world’s first industrialized city — a hub of the Industrial Revolution in 18th-century Britain ...

PROFESSOR JEREMY BLACK:'The industrial revolution in the 18th Century had seen unprecedented improvements to Britain's transport network.' But it was next great advance in transport technology ...