HOW much yarn per day could an 18th-century British woman spin? Such questions are catnip for economic historians, whose debates typically unfold unnoticed by anyone outside their field. But a running ...

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 urban ...

For the first time in 230 years, Britain has completed two months without burning coal to generate electricity. The last time coal was burned at any of Britain's four coal-fired power stations was ...

There’s been talk of a U.S. “Green New Deal” and a European “Green Deal,” and now the U.K. is getting into the game as well. British Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced a 10-point plan for what his ...

IN RECENT YEARS the British economy has tended to be in the news for the wrong reasons. Growth has been soggy, inflation has been high and living standards have been squeezed. Over the past 15 years ...

The outgoing British chief scientific adviser has warned that artificial intelligence (AI) could prove as transformational as the Industrial Revolution, urging politicians to act immediately to ...

The Industrial Revolution as depicted during the opening ceremonies of the 2012 Summer Olympic Games The answer to the above question — at least for someone responding in good faith — is that slavery ...

History does not repeat itself, but it rhymes - and economic history is no exception. In 1964, a Labour government came to power in the UK with a ...

SIR CYRIL FOX, director of the National Museum of Wales, delivered the annual Im Thurn Memorial Lecture to the Scottish Anthropological and Folklore Society on April 17. Sir Cyril emphasized the ...