Mark Stein, manager of General Motors' Vauxhall van plant in Luton, 29 miles north of London, starts presentations with an aerial photo of the site in 1965. It shows a vast complex of buildings that ...
Ironbridge Gorge, the birthplace of the Industrial Revolution and a UNESCO World Heritage Site, will become a National Trust ...
As London seeks to end the financial crisis, some Brits want to go back to how things used to be—way back. Last year, then–business secretary John Hutton pinpointed industrial manufacturing as ...
A paradigm shift is happening in front of our eyes. In the 18th & 19th centuries, Great Britain used coal to power the ...
Britain's transition from water power to coal-based steam power set the stage for the 19th century Industrial Revolution, which transformed much of Europe and North America into predominantly urban ...
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Britain’s canals: engineering marvels built by sheer hard work
Britain’s canals played a vital role in transporting goods and fueling the Industrial Revolution. In this video, we explore ...
SELDOM has such scepticism surrounded a merger as when, in the depths of the 2008 financial crisis, Lloyds TSB decided to buy its ailing competitor, HBOS, to create the biggest domestic bank in ...
Travel back with me a few hundred years before the industrial revolution, and the wildlife of Britain and Ireland looks very different indeed. Take orcas: While there are now less than ten left in ...
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