Ian Inkster Colin Griffin Jeff Hill and Judith Rowbotham
Ashgate
Hardback
304
2000
In 1850 the Industrial Revolution came to an end. In 1851 the Great Exhibition illustrated to the whole world the supremacy of industrial England. For the next twenty years Britain reigned supreme. From around 1870 Britain began to decline. Britain is now a second rate power with strong memories of its former supremacy.