Was the Industrial Revolution the most important event in human history? Dan Snow is joined by economist and journalist Duncan Weldon to explore why exactly the industrial revolution started on the ...

HOW much yarn per day could an 18th-century British woman spin? Such questions are catnip for economic historians, whose debates typically unfold unnoticed by anyone outside their field. But a running ...

As London seeks to end the financial crisis, some Brits want to go back to how things used to be—way back. Last year, then–business secretary John Hutton pinpointed industrial manufacturing as ...

Mark Stein, manager of General Motors' Vauxhall van plant in Luton, 29 miles north of London, starts presentations with an aerial photo of the site in 1965. It shows a vast complex of buildings that ...

Britain's transition from water power to coal-based steam power set the stage for the 19th century Industrial Revolution, which transformed much of Europe and North America into predominantly urban ...

Deconstructing the British industrial revolution as a conjuncture and paradigm for global economic history / Patrick K. O'Brien -- The British product revolution of the eighteenth century / Maxine ...

It’s Wednesday, November 18, and the U.K. has released its plan for a “green industrial revolution.” There’s been talk of a U.S. “Green New Deal” and a European “Green Deal,” and now the U.K. is ...

The outgoing British chief scientific adviser has warned that artificial intelligence (AI) could prove as transformational as the Industrial Revolution, urging politicians to act immediately to ...

National Grid hails milestone as other sources like gas, wind, nuclear and solar allow UK to keep lights on with all coal-fired powerplants offline ...

For the first time in 230 years, Britain has completed two months without burning coal to generate electricity. The last time coal was burned at any of Britain's four coal-fired power stations was ...