industrial revolution

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• - Extensive excerpt from a book on the development of the textile industry in the U.S., including New England and Mississippi. Author: Narvell Strickland.
  
• - Suggests that Great Britain and America were chiefly responsible for the Industrial Revolution.
  
• - Features biographies and entries on reformers, supporters, laborers, working conditions, and other things related to child labor in Britain.
  
• - Features a range of historical information and data including research papers, images, and extracts from the Illustrated London News.
  
• - A history project done by a secondary student in Hong Kong.
  
• - An overview of the industrial revolution in textiles, profiling workers and reformers of 18th century Britain, related events in labor history, and describing modes of transportation and living.
  
• - A brief history of what happened during this time period.
  
• - BBC/Open University site to accompany the series 'What The Industrial Rveolution Did For Us', exploring the advances in science and engineering and how their effects are still felt today.
  
• - 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.
  
• - The story of how the Duke of Bridgewater created the first true canal in the U.K from his coal mines to Manchester. Galleries of related photographs and engravings.
  
• - The full text of these lectures by Arnold Toynbee in 1884.
  
• - A series of illustrated historical essays about the family who played a major role in the history and economy of eighteenth century Britain, France and America.