In 1866, journalist Andrew Halliday led his readers on a guided tour of one of London’s foremost card manufacturers – to ...

The Luddite movement, active between 1811 and 1816 in England, was a collective of skilled artisans—primarily weavers and ...

The lives of the rich and poor in 18th century Britain were vastly different. The Industrial Revolution, which started in the middle of the century, saw the arrival of new machinery that saved ...

in Earth's atmosphere since the Industrial Revolution. In the pre-industrial days of the 18th century, the carbon dioxide level in the atmosphere was approximately 278 parts per million (ppm). Today, ...

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When we think of Valentine’s Day, chubby Cupids, hearts and roses generally come to mind, not industrial processes like mass ...

The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston presents "Picturing Nature," featuring 70 British landscape watercolors and drawings from the 18th and 19th centuries.

Pseudo-archaeology has played a big role in constructing mythical histories that feed into imagined pasts that ultimately ...

Modern industry started in the 18th century, and its growth accelerated throughout the 19th as production switched from metal to coal mining. By the early 20th century, about one in four Welsh workers ...