Industrial Revolution

Few episodes in the history of the British Labour movement have been as mythologised as that in which six Dorset farm labourers were shipped to Australia for their trade union activities.

The first effective miners' safety lamp was unveiled on November 9th 1815.

Early associated with midland Collieries, writes E.M. Howe, the Beaumont family later became generous patrons of art.

The search for an explanation for why Britain was the first nation to industrialise.

J.T. Ward describes how romantic views of the Middle Ages and a dislike for the horrors of industrialism inspired an able group of young Conservatives in the House of Commons during the 1840s.

For the 18th-century tourist, there was a strange beauty in rugged industrial landscapes, which moved them to quote poetry and dash off pages of vivid descriptive prose.

Educationalist. Co-operator. Capitalist. Utopian. W.H. Oliver describes how Robert Owen was doomed to foster ideas and programmes which caused him considerable distress.

A milestone in railway transportation, George Stephenson's first steam train was unveiled on July 25th, 1814.

During the Industrial Revolution, many “dark Satanic mills” arose to scar the English landscape. But in Gloucestershire, writes Esther A.L. Moir, home of the cloth industry, commerce and the art of architecture achieved a happy compromise.

W.H. Chaloner offers a study in British railway engineering.