Before the dawn of the Industrial Revolution Britain was a quite different place to the one that exists today. Industrialisation brought with it new types of roads, trains and many other forms of communications which simply did not exist prior to industrialisation. read more
People lived in accordance with natural rhythms rather than according to clocks. The age-old cycle of sunlight and darkness, the turning of seasons, guided life. read more
Historians outline several reasons for the incredible increase in agricultural production in England just before the Industrial Revolution. First, crops from the “New World” in the Americas—such as corn, potato, turkey, squash, and tomato—began to come into use in Europe. read more