Industrial Revolution

Andrea Wolter-Abele looks at how machines and industrial society provoked new concepts of creativity.

Richard Cavendish unthreads the history of this Worcestershire museum.

Did the British state help the UK's transformation into a position of world industrial dominance? Were 'gentlemen capitalists' or no-nonsense industrialists fawned on or frustrated by government and its agents? Martin Daunton addresses a controversial historical debate.

Ralph Houlbrooke traces back the distinctive roots of the modern family.

Gertrude Himmelfarb considers why and when poverty ceased to be a ‘natural’ condition and become a ‘social’ problem in the Early Industrial Age.

R.J. Morris begins the second part of our special feature on the Industrial Revolution, asking what were the effects of the Industrial Revolution on class and class consciousness in Britain?

Roderick Floud continues our special feature on the Industrial Revolution with a look at the impact of industrialisation on the British people.

Barrie Trinder examines the cradle of the Industrial Revolution.

Martin Daunton explores 19th century production on both sides of the Atlantic.