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 ...
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 ...
It didn't matter whether you were born in bucolic 17th century England or a Stone Age cave ... and she believes that the revolution in living standards ultimately stemmed from a change in attitude ...
Britain began its Industrial Revolution in the 17th century, more than a hundred years before the textbooks say, a new Cambridge study has claimed. It is generally understood that the Industrial ...
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 ...