The bell that stood atop the Flaxmill Maltings in Shrewsbury, Shropshire, was familiar to both workers and residents. That ...

An appeal has been launched to find the long-lost bell which used to sit on the top of Shrewsbury's historic flaxmill.

During the Victorian era, Glasgow became the workhouse of the empire as the industrial revolution saw heavy industry such as ...

Charles Dickens captured daily hardships, while Victor Hugo wrote sweeping epics of struggle and redemption but which author ...

Loading That crucial detail aside, Kneecap’s revolution is mostly powered by ... a cusp moment in the band’s transition from gloomy industrial rock towards clubland reinvention.

The Industrial Revolution in the 19th century transformed ... The 18th and 19th ­centuries brought new institutions—workhouses and special schools. Now people with ­impairments were ...

I don’t remember which anarchist organisation produced the leaflet headed ‘Not the right to work, but the fight to live’; it may have been the Edinburgh Coalition Against Poverty, the claimants’ ...

In his ‘Views of Matlock Bath’, the central subject is the Derbyshire village on the river Derwent that bore witness to the consolidation of the English Landscape tradition, the birth of the ...

The Industrial Revolution that began in the mid-18th century had created ... trade union rights and against the hated ‘Poor Law’ (that forced those in need into workhouses, which the Chartists called ...