Houses like this were traditional in the Highlands of Scotland before the Industrial Revolution. Today most people in Scotland live in urban areas - large towns or cities. Families lived in the ...

The foundations of the modern world were laid by one major event—the industrial revolution. A profusion of new technologies and manufacturing processes, accompanied by innovations in finance and ...

This is a unique account of working-class childhood during the British industrial revolution. Using more than 600 autobiographies written by working men of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries Jane ...