The Industrial Revolution: Links

 

 
Spartacus The Spartacus Encyclopedia contains entries on many aspects of the Industrial Revolution, including Slavery, Railways, the Role of Women and Political leaders of the period.
Workhouses Brilliant site dedicated to the history of the Workhouse, the poor who lived their and the social consequences of this institution. Excellent site.
Workers The Life of an Industrial Worker in 19th century Industrial Britain.
Women Miners A Report into the conditions faced by women miners in 1812.
The Match girls Strike The Match Girls Strike. This page looks at the conditions faced by women working in the Match factory and shows how action was taken by a number of people to try and force reform on behalf of these women.
Britain 1700-1900 History Learning site account of Britain in the period 1700-1900. Very useful resource.
Textiles The history of the Textile Industry.
Steam power A look at the way in which steam power was developed by Newcomen and Watt.
Industrialisation (BBC) The BBC's wonderful explanation of the industrial Revolution.
Inventions of the Industrial Age A brief look at a number of the major inventions of the Industrial Age.
Source material Documents from the era of the Industrial Revolution preserved on the Internet Sourcebook.
Google Directory The Google Directory's section on the Industrial revolution provides many useful links.
The Railways The development of the railways and it's impact on Britain.
London in 1859 An analysis of what the city of London was really like in the year 1859.
Victorians Uncovered An in depth look at the way that people lived in the Victorian age.
History of Canals Covers the early days of the Canal to the modern use of canals, detailed explanations of how canals work can be found on this site.
Iron Bridge The Iron bridge is a world famous landmark of the industrial Revolution. Visit the homepage of the IronBridge Organisation to find out what makes it so special.
Charles Booth Online Archive Charles Booth conducted a survey of the poor. His findings helped to push reforms through. Discover what he achieved on this fabulous site.

 

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The 1833 Factory Act Page
The 1834 Poor Law Page
The Anti-Corn League
British History of Child Labor in the 19c (Spartacus)
British House of Commons Election Results:  1832-1983 (Spartacus Site)
"British Industrial Growth" - tutorial with documents and other resources
Causes of the Industrial Revolution
Chartism
Chartist Newspapers (Spartacus Site)
Child Labor in  19c England - primary documents of reformers, supporters, etc.
Crystal Palace Exhibition in London in 1850
The Emancipation of British Women:  1750-1920 (Spartacus)
"Enfranchising Women: The Politics of Women's Suffrage in Europe 1789-1945" - tutorial with documents and other resources
England:  Young Workers in the 19th Century - Interview (The Life of the Industrial Worker in 19th-Century England)
The First Industrial Revolution - up to 1840 (BBC)
Immanuel Wallerstein's World System Theory
The Industrial Revolution- Technology and Social Effects
The Industrial Revolution and the Railway System
Inventions of the Industrial Revolution (BBC)
Lectures on the Industrial Revolution in England - Arnold Toynbee (1884)
The Luddites:  1811-1812 (Spartacus Site)
Map-->"English Common Lands Enclosed by Acts of Parliament:  1700-1850"
Map-->"Industrial England:  Early 19c"
Map-->"Industrialization in Western Europe:  1850"
NM's Creative Impulse:  The Development of Western Civilization - The Industrial Revolution (mucho links)
"The Origins of the Industrial Revolution in England" - from the Lectures on Modern European Intellectual History
Paul Halsall's notes on "Socialism, Marxism, and Trade Unionism"
The Peel Web
People of Action During the 19c
The Plight of Women's Work in the  Early Industrial Revolution in England and Wales
Queen Victoria (Spartacus Site)
"The Social Aspects of Industrialization" - tutorial with documents and other resources
Songs of Innocence - William Blake
Spread and Social Results of Industrialization
Tables Illustrating the Spread of Industrialization
Women and Chartism (Spartacus Site)
The Workhouse


    
1767:  Spinning Jenney - James Hargraves
1778:  First Watt engine (animated)
1786:  Leeds Woolen Workers Petition
1791:  Letter from Leeds Cloth Merchants
1794:  Observations on the Loss of Woollen Spinning
1795:  Manchester Becomes a Thriving Industrial City - John Aikin
1798:  An Essay on the Principle of Population - Thomas Malthus
 19c:  Images of the Industrial Revolution in England
 19c:  Table Showing the Comparative Weight of Factory & Non-Factory English Children
1800:  Petition for Poor Relief
1802:  The Health and Morals of Apprentices Act
1806:  House of Commons Select Committee on The Woollen Industry
1807:  Child Labor in Cotton Factories - Robert Southey, Letters from England
1812:  A Luddite attack on a Yorkshire mill
1812:  Luddite Oath
1813-49:  Various Descriptions of Workhouse Children, England
1814:  The English Corn Laws
1816:  Evidence of James Pattison (on the state of health and morals of children employed in manufactories)
1818:  Observations on the Effects of the Manufacturing System - Robert Owen
1819:  Opposition to the Chimney Sweepers' Regulation Bill 
1819:  The Six Acts
1823:  "The Steam Loom" - Richard Guest
1830s?:  Power Loom - weaving in England
1830:  Wages of Factory Workers in Leeds - statistical chart
1831:  Various Comments on the London Reform Riots of 1831
1831-32:  Transcripts from the Sadler Commission Investigation
1832:  Sadler Commission Report on Child Labor - testimony of Joseph Habergam, 17 years of age
1832:  Debates Amongst Lyonnais Weavers and Republicans
1832:  Dr. Samuel Smith's Testimony to the House of Commons
1832:  Health in the Factory and in the Mine - John Rule
1832:  Macauley On Parliamentary Reform
1832:  The Moral and Physical Conditions of the Working Classes of Manchester in 1832 - Sir James Kay-Shuttleworth
1832:  Reform Act (Britain)
1832:  Speech of Michael Sadler in the House of Commons on the second reading of the Factories Regulation Bill
1832-42:  The Life of the Industrial Worker in 19c England - several docs.
1833:  Age of Workers in Cotton Mills in Lancashire, England - statistical chart
1833:  An Act Abolishing Slavery Throughout the British Colonies
1833:  The Factory Act
1833:  Minutes of Mark Best's evidence taken before the Committee on the Factories Bill
1833:  The People's Charter
1833:  Report of the Commissioners on the employment of children in factories
1833:  "A Well Conducted Factory" - article in The Penny Magazine
1834:  The Lyon Uprising
1834:  The Poor Laws Amendment Act
1834:  "To the Straw Bonnet Makers" - in the Owenite journal, The Pioneer
1835:  "Notes on a Journey to the Mines of Cornwall and Wales" - article in The Penny Magazine
1835:  "The Philosophy of the Manufacturers" - Andrew Ure
1838:  The Barnsley Manifesto
1838:  The First National Petition (England)
1839:  Leonard Horner, Inspector of Factories for the British government, commenting on the implementation of the 1833 Factory Act
1839-40:  The view of a soldier on Chartist activity in the north of England - from the diaries of Sir Charles Napier
1840:  Conditions in Nottingham in 1840 - General Sir Charles Napier
1840s:  Condition of the Poor in Manchester - John Layhe
1841:  Robert Peel's Speech on the Corn Laws
1841:  Splinter movements from Chartism - criticism by Feargus O'Connor, Northern Star (4/3)
1842:  Chadwick's Report on Sanitary Conditions
1842:  The Debate on the 1842 Charter
1842:  Duncombe's Speech Introducing the 1842 Charter
1842:  The Factory System Illustrated - "Mary Bucktrout" - William Dodd
1842:  Public Reaction to the Disclosure of Conditions in the Coal Mines - Conservative Party's periodical, the Quarterly Review
1842:  Shaftesbury's Speech in Commons on Conditions in the Mines
1842:  Testimony Gathered by Ashley's Mines Commission
1842:  Thomas Macaulay's speech against Chartism
1843:  Agricultural Conditions in Ireland - reported by Captain Kennedy, Secretary to the Devonshire Commission
1843:  "Capital and Labor" -  an 1843 English cartoon on the exploitation of children in the mines
1844:  Industrial Manchester - Friedrich Engels
1844:  Introduction to The Condition of the Working Class in England - Friedrich Engels
1844:  Shaftesbury's Speech in Commons on the Ten-Hour Act
1845:  "Cheap Clothing" - political cartoon by John Leach in Punch
1845:  Conditions in Manchester - Charles Cavendish Greville's Memoirs
1845:  An extract from Lord John Russell's Edinburgh Letter of 11/22 to support Peel's repeal of the Corn Laws
1845:  Industrial Conditions in Manchester, England
1845:  Prince Albert's memorandum on the Corn Laws (12/25)
1845:  "A Wise Factory Owner" - Parliamentary Papers 1845, XXV, pp. 456-7 (Britain)
1846:  Sir Robert Peel's Speech on the Repeal of the Corn Laws
1846:  Sir Robert Peel's speech resigning from the House of Commons
1847+:  English Views of the Irish Potato Famine
1848?:  A Letter in Reply to a Hand-Bill published by the Curate of Rotherham, criticizing Chartism
1848:  The People's Charter
mid-19c:  "Cripples in the Yard of Children's Home in London" - picture
1859:  Self-Help - Samuel Smiles
1861:  Study of London Labour and the London Poor, Volume I - Henry Mayhew
1863:  Utilitarianism (Chapter 1 - General Remarks)- John Stuart Mill
1867:  Reform Act (Britain)
1870-1913:  Tables Illustrating the Spread of Industrialization in the Western World
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