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 ...

This is a unique account of working-class childhood during the British industrial revolution, first published in 2010. Using more than 600 autobiographies written by working men of the eighteenth and ...

Britain emerged in Victorian times as the world's first industrial power, but the transition wasn't smooth. Some entrepreneurs made fortunes from the new cotton industry, but many of the factory ...

The Industrial Revolution is considered to be one of the most transformative socio-economic shifts in modern history. This is ...