Industrial Revolution
A sudden explosion of technological and economic change, initially in Britain (c.1750-1800). It began with the accumulation of trading capital and the mechanization of the textile factories of... read more |
R.J. Morris begins the second part of our special feature on the Industrial Revolution, asking what were the effects of the Industrial Revolution on class and class consciousness in Britain? |
The year 1812 was a turning point in the career of the industrialist Robert Owen. Ian Donnachie examines his Essays on a New View of Society, in which Owen first aired the ideas about popular education and workers’ welfare that would make him famous as a reformer. Published in History Today, Volume: 62 Issue: 2, 2012
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In 1817, during a period of economic hardship following the war with France, a motley crew of stocking-makers, stonemasons, ironworkers and labourers from a Derbyshire village attempted an uprising against the government. It was swiftly and brutally suppressed. Susan Hibbins tells the story of England’s last attempted revolution. Published in History Today, Volume: 60 Issue: 11
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This year marks the 300th anniversary of the birth of the Industrial Revolution in what is now a quiet Shropshire town as well as the 200th anniversary of the death of one of Britain’s greatest industrialists, Matthew Boulton. Ross Reyburn reports. |
Commentators have tended to play down the importance of London as a business and industrial centre since 1500, argues Theo Barker, and in the process have distorted the saga of Britain’s economic rise and fall. Published in History Today, 2008
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Peter Furtado visits the new National Waterfront Museum in Swansea, the museum of Welsh industrial and maritime heritage. Published in History Today, Volume: 55 Issue: 11
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Kenneth J. Baird examines change and continuity in 19th-century British social history. |
British Heritage sites nominated for UNESCO.
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Was Richard Arkwright really the mechanical genius of the Industrial Revolution? Karen Fisk questions his record as Britain’s first cotton tycoon. |
Edward Royle explains how labels were used in early industrial Britain for propaganda rather than description. |
Richard Cavendish unthreads the history of this Worcestershire museum. Published in History Today, Volume: 46 Issue: 8
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Ralph Houlbrooke traces back the distinctive roots of the modern family. |
Gertrude Himmelfarb considers why and when poverty ceased to be a 'natural' condition and become a 'social' problem in the Early Industrial Age. |
Roderick Floud continues our special feature on the Industrial Revolution with a look at the impact of industrialisation on the British people. |
R.J. Morris begins the second part of our special feature on the Industrial Revolution, asking what were the effects of the Industrial Revolution on class and class consciousness in Britain? |
K.Z. Cieszkowski on the visual chronicler of scentific and industrial developments in the 18th century Midlands. |
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