Looking at History

With the 200th anniversary of the unprovoked attack by the forces of the local state on an unarmed crowd in Manchester while there is no qu...

Between 1780 and 1850, economic change had far-reaching effects on British society. From being an overwhelmingly rural and agricultural soc...

The view that the industrial revolution represented a dramatic watershed between an old and a new world has recently been questioned by his...

In the latter part of the eighteenth and the first half of the nineteenth century, Britain underwent what historians have called an ‘indust...