Essays

Fredrik Albritton Jonsson on coal mines and fossil vegetation

William Ashworth on the rise of synthetic soda

Hannah Barker on the small traders of the northern towns

Sarah Baylis on the public history of the Industrial Revolution

Maxine Berg on copper and slavery

Ute Berns on steamships in Coleridge and Beddoes

Adam Bridgen on James Woodhouse and working-class autobiography

EJ Clery on Milton’s Satan, mining, and the sublime

Philip Connell on Robert Southey’s Colloquies

Mary-Ann Constantine on Iolo Morganwg’s visit to Ironbridge Gorge

Jeremy Davies on Thomas Bachelor and agricultural improvement

Ken Davies on the industrialisation of the Greenfield Valley

Fiona Gale on the view from Halkyn Mountain

Eric Gidal on John Sinclair and the Statistical Accounts

Pat Hudson and Maxine Berg on slavery and the Industrial Revolution

Roseanna Kettle on man-made lighting in George Head’s Tour

Nigel Leask on the Carron Ironworks

Pete Maw on health, wealth, and height in the Industrial Revolution

Jon Mee on William Turner’s northern tour

Catherine Packham on Adam Smith, Mary Wollstonecraft, and the Trollhätten Cascade

Paul Stephens on poetry and the wages of labour

Peter Wakelin on images of Ironbridge