The Industrial Revolution was a turning point in human history, marking the shift from agrarian societies to industrialized ...

In Britain the price of electricity is nearly always set by expensive gas. Bills have also been raised by charges and levies, ...

Travel back with me a few hundred years before the industrial revolution, and the wildlife of Britain and Ireland looks very different indeed. Take orcas: While there are now less than ten left in ...

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 ...

Fatbergs turned into perfume - inside Britain's bizarre new industrial revolution© BBC A fatberg in a drain - they can sometimes be found blocking up British sewers© Getty Images ...

The American Revolution went hand-in-hand with an economic revolution that transformed human political and social, as well as commercial life, and continues to unfold.

More than 150 years after pioneering the technology, the UK has shut its last coal-fired power station. Experts say it's a seminal moment for the energy transition.

Britain's Labor Government this week proposed a revolutionary act—in its implications the most sweeping act since the Soviet Government's decree of forced collectivization of ...

Britain’s last coal-fired power plant will close on Monday, ending 142 years of coal-generated electricity in the nation that sparked the Industrial Revolution.

The once-great industrial city that fell victim to Britain’s widening divide Sheffield has shed its glorious past to join the rest of stagnant Britain – is there any way back?

Last week, with totalitarianism in the ascendency throughout Europe and democracy fighting for its life, first stirrings of a counter-revolutionary movement to reassert democratic principles became ...