Since early humans first kindled firewood until Britain’s Industrial Revolution, energy typically came from renewable sources ...

a brilliant book on two of the main questions of economics (or economic history): why did the Industrial Revolution happen in Great Britain, and why did it cause a fundamental break in long term ...

This was the year when the last coal-fired power station in Britain closed, bringing to an end this island’s association with ...

As the media alarms us about an approaching ‘quad-demic’ of diseases this winter (Covid-19, Flu, RSV, Norovirus) it is a ...

While the Christmas card may have seemed like an entirely new invention to Victorian senders and receivers, the first ...

Published on this day in 1843, at a time when Christmas was undergoing great transformation, Charles Dickens' novel centered ...

The custom of mailing printed Christmas cards in the 19th century was a product of the industrial revolution. It was ...

KS2 activities based on The Last Boy, a compelling novel that tells the heartbreaking story of a young chimney sweep in the ...

Christmas cards were also, apparently, a Victorian invention. The story goes that a particularly disgruntled gentleman by the ...

City versus town, yellow and gold vs red and white, wolf vs swift, we ask the most important question, Wolverhampton or ...

Professors say department’s staff are being exposed to course which is ‘full of exaggerations and misconceptions’ ...

The Carolina Corps achieved emancipation through military service, paving the way for future fighters in the British Empire ...