Pre-industrial revolution posters & prints

Newcastle from Askew's Wood, engraved by Edward Francis, 1829 William (after) Westall

The South-East Prospect of Newcastle Upon Tyne, 1745 Nathaniel and Samuel Buck

The South West Prospect of Manchester on the County Palatine of Lancaster, 1728 Nathaniel and Samuel Buck

Cutlery-making, c1750s Unknown

Industrial Revolution. England. Mining Anonymous

The foundry or cast house, Butterley Ironworks, Derbyshire, 1844 Unknown

Loading Coal on Cargo Ships from 'History of British Birds and Quadrupeds' Thomas Bewick

Fore's Contrasts: The Guard of 1832, The Guard of 1852 Henry Thomas (after) Alken

Fore's Contrasts: The Driver of 1832, The Driver of 1852 Henry Thomas Alken

The Forge, 1859 James Sharples

Blast furnaces for production of iron at Coalbrookdale, Shropshire, c1830 HW Bond

Boy 'putters' moving coal in a narrow seam, Lancashire, England, 1848 Unknown

Forge of the Derosne and Cail Company, Grenelle Edmond (after) Morin

Boy pushing a truck loaded with coal from the coal face to the bottom of the pit shaft, c1848 Unknown

Bell Time, New England Factory Life Winslow Homer

Nant-y-Glow Iron Works, Monmouthshire, Wales, c1780, (c1830) Unknown

Various types of Agricultural Machinery English School

Worsted manufacturing, c1845 Unknown

View of Leeds, Yorkshire, early 19th century Unknown

Blenkinsop steam locomotive at Middleton colliery near Leeds Robert Havell

Gen View Revolutionary Foundry Buildings Anonymous

Carding, Drawing and Roving Edward Baines

Weaving shed fitted with Jacquard power looms, c1880 Unknown

Puddling Iron English School

Casting a mortar at Grissell's Regent's Canal Ironworks, City Road, London, 1855 Unknown

Steam hammer being used in an ironworks, France, 1867 Unknown

London going out of Town - or The March of Bricks and Mortar, 1829 George Cruikshank

Smelling Out a Rat; or the Atheistical-Revolutionist Disturbed in His Midnight Calculations Anonymous

Workmen demolishing wooden houses for fuel, 1920 Anonymous

Striking Putilov workers on the first day of the February Revolution, St Petersburg, Russia, 1917 Anonymous

Industry and Idleness, The Fellow 'Prentices at their Looms William Hogarth

Children playing in a slum, 1899 English Photographer

Birthplace of the Late Sir Robert Peel, Bart., Near Bury, Lancashire Anonymous

An Ironworks by Moonlight Sebastian Pether

Clearing the Wood for the Iron Way, 1880 Thomas Sidney Cooper

Inclined plane powered by water wheel in used on a canal, 1796 Unknown