However, the end of salt manufacturing in a key plant, leaving the UK dependent on imports for the first time in history, ...

Britain was already well on its way to an industrialized economy under the reign of the Stuarts in the 17th century—over 100 years before textbooks mark the start of the Industrial ...

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 ...

More than 100 species of moths became darker to blend in with pollution during Britain’s industrial revolution, but did these different moth species all rely on the same gene to adapt? Two color ...

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 ...

LONDON — Britain’s last coal-fired power plant closed on Monday, ending 142 years of coal-generated electricity in the nation that sparked the Industrial Revolution. The Ratcliffe-on-Soar station in ...

For the first time in more than 100 years, Britain has gone two full weeks without coal-powered energy. The country’s power grid operator, the National Grid Electricity System Operator, confirmed the ...

A fascinating insight into Britain’s industrial past as evidenced by its buildings, richly illustrated with intricate line drawings. Architecture historian and artist Hubert Pragnell offers an ...

Millions of historical employment records show the British workforce turned sharply towards manufacturing jobs during the 1600s -- suggesting the birth of the industrial age has much deeper roots, say ...