Tucked into a wooded gorge along the River Clyde sits a place that looks, at first glance, like a picturesque Scottish village. But New Lanark is far more than a scenic historic site. It is one of the world’s most important experiments in industrial society - a cotton mill community that became a blueprint for humane working conditions, universal education, and social reform at the height of the Industrial Revolution.
New Lanark: How one village changed the Industrial Revolution in Scotland