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 ...
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 ...
Ironbridge Gorge, the birthplace of the Industrial Revolution and a UNESCO World Heritage Site, will become a National Trust ...
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 ...
The latest idea is based on osmosis, a natural process in which water will move from a place with lower concentration of, for ...
Benjamin Franklin once said that “failing to plan is planning to fail” and as we look at the situation the British government finds itself in with Brexit, that quote feels very apt. Aside from ...
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 ...