Save guides, add subjects and pick up where you left off with your BBC account. Map showing the coalfields of Great Britain in the 19th century. Across the world, coal had been used as a source of ...

The foundations of the modern world were laid by one major event—the industrial revolution ... steel is made by heating iron ore in a blast furnace fueled with coal and coke, a coal-derived ...

This area thrived on its abundant coal seams and fostered ... became a symbol and the cradle of the Industrial Revolution due to pioneering developments in iron ore smelting, earning itself ...