Britain’s canals played a vital role in transporting goods and fueling the Industrial Revolution. In this video, we explore ...

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 ...

Featuring Terence Kealey, Ph.D. and Deirdre McCloskey, Ph.D, Why did the industrial revolution happen in Great Britain? Why in the late 18th and early 19th century and not before? Find out on Free to ...

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 ...

Since jobs in the real-world draw upon several disciplines at once, STEM does the same with science, technology, engineering, and math. Lessons integrate all these disciplines, so it's, therefore, ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Why Britain was first is no longer a customary question. Yet just why this small set of islands proved able to ...