The annual price hike from energy companies has just been announced to widespread outrage. James Eatwell and Michael Cass return to the golden age of British energy and chart the rise and subsequent fall of our domestic coal industry.
Baking the Industrial Revolution
Jennifer Nuttall explores the pastries that have defined the industrial cities and regions of Britain.
The history of Manchester
Manchester is one of the historical centres of the UK. Caroline Bishop asks why.
A history of alcohol
Tea may well be our National drink, but there’s no denying the long-held, never-ending love the population of the UK has for Ale!…and Gin…and Vodka….and basically all spirits.
Get your ankles out for the lads!
Such conditions worried the early Victorian state immensely. Emerging social research confirmed that the environment as well as the physical and moral habits of a locality’s inhabitants stimulated disease and ensured its spread. The belief proliferated that sexual debauchery was at once a product of material squalor and a causal factor in the decline of Continue Reading