The Industrial Revolution, marking a major transition from hand-based and agrarian production to machine-based manufacturing, is generally considered to have first begun in:
One of the important preconditions for Britain's early industrialisation was an earlier transformation in farming methods and productivity, generally referred to as the:
The Agricultural Revolution in Britain, which increased food production and freed up surplus rural labour for industrial work, was closely associated with a process of consolidating small landholdings into larger farms, known as the:
Britain's early lead in industrialisation is often attributed in part to its rich domestic natural resource endowments, particularly its abundant reserves of:
