This year marks the 600th anniversary of the beginnings of the UK's canal network, when the government passed a law requiring ...

Things livened up with the opening of the Brading to Bembridge railway line on the Isle of Wight, but sadly, it wasn’t to be.

While residents of Hawes are proud of its market town title, it has a parish council and a population of just 803, making it ...

They often took up grueling work laboring as navvies building canals, bridges, railways and ports. Despite the overcrowding, poverty and discrimination the Irish faced, they formed strong communities ...

The people who built Britain's railways were the navvies. They were trained for a year and were fed on a diet of meat and beer. They could out-perform any other manual labourer. - Tangent: Railways ...

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Health and housing Industry — textile factories and coal mines Pressure for democratic reform up to 1884 Video playlist ...