Industrial Revelations

Episode 2

Pants for All

Mark Williams discovers how comfortable cotton fabrics became available to everyone with the introduction of water-powered textile mills

Episode 3

Clocking On

Mark Williams discovers how engineer James Brindley tunnelled through hills in a straight line, and details the emergence of Josiah Wedgwood's pottery business as a global industry

Episode 4

Pennine Passage

How the Leeds and Liverpool Canal turned two rival counties into hotbeds of activity, bringing wealth to mill owners during the Industrial Revolution

Episode 5

Working Iron

How Thomas Telford and the Darby family used iron to create new transport routes during the Industrial Revolution.

Episode 6

Coining It

Mark Williams visits Birmingham to experience what life was like during the Industrial Revolution for those employed in the glassworks and jewellery trades

Episode 7

Cutting Edge

How mass-produced, high-quality steel and the development of structured transport systems in northern England created a world-renowned industry

Episode 8

The Iron Horse

Mark Williams learns how frantic competition among Welsh rivals drove the development and installation of the world's first steam locomotive

Episode 9

Highland Flop

More powerful steam engines solve a variety of problems during the Industrial Revolution.

Episode 10

Power Crazy

Why steam engines were developed during the Industrial Revolution to solve a range of engineering and social problems