Industrialisation & Industrial History

First hailed as a wonder of the new industrial world, to later 19th-century commentators the name Ancoats became synonymous with dark satanic mills...

Maurice Broomfield (1916-2010) was a humanist photographer of the heroic and sublime - and sometimes surreal - qualities of industry and manufactur...

***The subject of the new major film by Mike Leigh***Unity of the oppressed can make a difference in politically uncertain times A peaceful protes...

As the columns of French infantry marched up the slopes of the Mont St Jean at Waterloo, the British heavy cavalry, the Royal Scots Greys to the fo...

The Hardys as farmers and brewers, their workforce and their wider circle were constantly on the move: itinerancy was a way of life. Roads, waterwa...

It is more than 200 years since the worlds first steam railway locomotive hauled its initial load of iron ore and passengers on a short, slow journ...

A DAILY TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEAR 2022'There is unlikely to be a fuller or more informative history of Birmingham than Vinen's' Jonathan Coe, Fina...

Britains key importance in world history was a product of its constitution and its empire, but both, in turn, were sustained and supported by Brita...

The British Industrial Revolution has long been seen as the spark for modern, global industrialization and sustained economic growth. Indeed the or...

Labor's End traces the discourse around automation from its origins in the factory to its wide-ranging implications in political and social life. A...

*Longlisted for the William MB Berger Prize for British Art History, 2022*A spectacular new biography of the great designer, entrepreneur, abolitio...

In recent years, the integrity of food production and distribution has become an issue of wide social concern. The media frequently report on cases...

This business history analyzes the connections between private business, disarmament, and re-armament as they affected arms procurement and militar...

Jan Breman takes dispossession as his central theme in this ambitious analysis of labour bondage in India's changing political economy from 1962 to...

Sissons' Paints was part of Hull. For over 150 years, the Sissons family, through six generations, treated their ever-expanding company workforce a...