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 ...

McCloskey is a scholar of economic history, and she believes that the revolution in living ... in an aristocratic sense. By the 18th century in Britain it came to mean truth-telling - the ...

The Industrial Revolution may have marked the beginning of a new era in England, but the spirit ... furniture and cast-iron bridges of the 18th century to the modern fixtures being crafted by ...

Much of the landscape of Cornwall and West Devon was transformed in the 18th and early ... in the early 19th century, enabled the region to produce two-thirds of the world's supply of copper. The ...

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Hovering on the outskirts of Greater Manchester, this nod to the North West’s industrial past has been memorialised- with the cotton industry’s dark origins not forgotten ...

The processes Halliday described, however, were common to many British card manufacturers in the 1860s, and exemplified many industrial practices first introduced during the late 18th century ...