show the female workers who toiled for long hours at Welsh mines using heavy equipment to break ironstones. All of the photographs were taken by W. Clayton of Tredegar, a small Welsh mining town ...

and what was in evidence there is the consequence of South Africa failing to transform the mining industry from a 19th century business model, which relies on cheap migrant labour, very archaic ...

Blue jeans gained popularity in the late 19th-century American West due to their ... Each person on his team carries $1,500 worth of equipment, from harnesses to oxygen monitors to auto-stop ...

Cardiff, Swansea and Newport experienced huge population growth through the 19th century due to the economic expansions enabled by the trade. By 1840 the canal and rail network enabled 4.5m tons ...

Cobalt mining was a lucrative trade for England in the 19th century. But imports from other countries became cheaper than English cobalt, so this particular mine, owned by Sir John Thomas Stanley ...