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• Accounts of the Potato Revolution - Writings of various authors
• Child Labour - 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
• Cotton Times - Understanding the Industrial Revolution - An overview of the revolution in textiles, profiling workers and reformers of 18th century Britain, related events in labor history, and describing modes of transportation and living
• Cotton Town - Tells the story of the rapid social and economic changes that occurred as Blackburn and Darwen began to expand with the growth of the British textile industry
• Eccles, Manchester, Canals and Revolution - 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 - Papers on children, men, and women as factory workers as complete texts and abstracts by Douglas Galbi
• A History of Cotton Mills and the Industrial Revolution - Extensive excerpt from a book on the development of the textile industry in the United States, including New England and Mississippi
• Industrial Revolution - A comprehensive entry on the Industrial Revolution
• Industrial Revolution - A slide show presentation on the Industrial Revolution, including a look at inventions, labor laws, and socialism
• Industrial Revolution - A history project done by a secondary student in Hong Kong
• The Industrial Revolution - Professor Gerhard Rempel's introduction to the Industrial Revolution
• The Industrial Revolution and the Railway System - Features a range of historical information and data including research papers, images, and extracts from the Illustrated London News
• Industrial Revolution Vocabulary - Related terms with definitions
• Industry Revolution - A brief introduction to the revolution with information on the causes, inventions, and inventors
• Lectures on The Industrial Revolution in England - The full text by Arnold Toynbee in 1884
• Leeds Woollen Workers Petition - A petition by workers complaining about the effects of machines on the previously well-paid skilled workers
• Letter of Leeds Cloth Merchants - Defense on the use of machines
• Steam Engine Library - A collection of historical documents
• What the Industrial Revolution Did for Us - Explores the advances in science and engineering and how their effects are still felt today
• The Wolverhampton Gunlock Makers - A sketch history of the family businesses who produced gunlocks (firing mechanisms for guns) from the 18th century to present day