Directory of Industrial Revolution Resources

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This category lists sites especially for the Industrial Revolution, a time of technical, social, economic, and cultural changes during the seventeenth century.

Resources in This Category

• A History of Cotton Mills and the Industrial Revolution

  http://narvellstrickland1.tripod.com/cottonmillhistory2/index1.html
  Extensive excerpt from a book on the development of the textile industry in the United States, including New England and Mississippi.

• Accounts of the Potato Revolution

  http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1695potato.asp
  Writings of various authors.

• Child Labour

  http://spartacus-educational.com/IRchild.htm
  Offers detailed descriptions on what it was like to work in a factory as a child. Includes biographies of factory reformers, accounts from the workers themselves, legislation passed and statistics.

• Eccles, Manchester, Canals and Revolution

  http://www.angelfire.com/hi5/canals/
  The story of how the Duke of Bridgewater created the first true canal in the United Kingdom from his coal mines to Manchester with galleries of related photographs and engravings.

• Factory Workers in the British Industrial Revolution

  http://www.galbithink.org/fw.htm
  Papers on children, men, and women as factory workers as complete texts and abstracts by Douglas Galbi.

• Industrial Revolution

  http://members.tripod.com/xu_chen/indusrevolt/
  A slide show presentation on the Industrial Revolution, including a look at inventions, labor laws, and socialism.

• Industrial Revolution

  http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook14.asp
  A comprehensive entry on the Industrial Revolution.

• Leeds Woollen Workers Petition

  http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1786machines.asp
  A petition by workers complaining about the effects of machines on the previously well-paid skilled workers.

• Letter of Leeds Cloth Merchants

  http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1791machines.asp
  Defense on the use of machines.

• The Industrial Revolution and the Railway System

  http://www.mtholyoke.edu/courses/rschwart/ind_rev/
  Features a range of historical information and data including research papers, images, and extracts from the Illustrated London News.

 

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