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This British Unesco Heritage Site Known As The ‘Birthplace Of The Industrial Revolution’ Will Join The National Trust In 2026 – Millions Will Be Able To Visit For F…

Ironbridge Gorge, the birthplace of the Industrial Revolution and a UNESCO World Heritage Site, will become a National Trust ...
Publishers Weekly

Liberty’s Dawn: A People’s History of the Industrial Revolution

It wasn’t all Bleak House and Oliver Twist. According to historian Griffin (A Short History of the British Industrial Revolution), the negative impact of the Industrial Revolution has been grossly ...
Times Union

Great Britain tries for 2nd industrial revolution

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 ...
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Quakers, Guns and the British Industrial Revolution

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Newsweek

Britain Considers a Second Industrial Revolution

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 ...
Science Daily

Drought, not lack of 'working rivers', may have helped spur transition to steam power in Britain's industrial revolution

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 ...
Business Insider

The UK has gone 2 months without burning coal, the longest period since the dawn of the Industrial Revolution

For the first time in 230 years, Britain has completed two months without burning coal to generate electricity. The last time coal was burned at any of Britain's four coal-fired power stations was ...