The early part of the Industrial Revolution may have exacerbated these conditions. Housing in factory cities was crowded, dirty, unheated, and unventilated. Food supplies were unreliable ...

Thus, while industries grew prodigiously in some regions of Wales, other areas experienced an industrial revolution which ultimately failed. The early railway age provided a huge boost to the ...

Rivers have been more intensively used for power in the Don catchment than almost anywhere else in the country, particularly during the peak of the Industrial Revolution. Sheffield is famous for its ...