The Industrial Revolution is considered to be one of the most transformative socio-economic shifts in modern history. This is ...

This is a unique account of working-class childhood during the British industrial revolution. Using more than 600 autobiographies written by working ... contexts untouched by conventional sources and ...

The invention of new technologies during the Industrial Revolution allowed the textile industry to expand and make new cloth products. Social and political reforms during the Industrial Revolution ...

Wrigley shows conclusively that the industrial revolution was not `a unitary, progressive, integrated phenomenon' (p. 132). And that is a worthwhile lesson for historians of science and technology, ...

Professor Jeremy Black explains the unique economic, social and political factors ... in particular units on the Victorians and the Industrial Revolution. Back to top Josiah Wedgwood: Genius ...