Industrial_Revolution

Websites to support the study of the Industrial Revolution, its social reformers, innovators and inventors

Industrial Revolution

http://members.aol.com/TeacherNet/Industrial.html

Features an extensive series of hotlinks on many topics related to the Industrial Revolution, including agriculture, architecture, authors, child labour, disparity of wealth, factories & mills, inventions, maps, overviews, important people, transportation & railroads, science & technology, unions, and urban planning.

Industrial Revolution

http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook14.html

Provides information on the Industrial Revolution, along with its social and political effects and the literary response to the times. Includes some primary source documents. Links to related sites.

Women in World History - Industrial Revolution

http://www.womeninworldhistory.com/lesson7.html

Learn how the Industrial Revolution affected women. Site has many external links on the "Resources" page.

The Industrial Revolution - A Trip to the Past

http://members.aol.com/mhirotsu/kevin/trip2.html

Provides information on the inventions, transportation, advances in art, modifications in medicince, and the change from a cottage industry to the factory system that occurred during the Industrial Revolution.

Industrial Revolution

http://library.thinkquest.org/16541/eng/learn/library/content/industrial.htm

Provides a brief summary of the Industrial Revolution, and links to information on Thomas Newcomen, James Watt, Richard Arkwright, and the steam engine.

Child Labour in the 19th Century

http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/IRchild.htm

An extensive site detailing the role of child labour in the Industrial Revolution in Britain. Includes biographical sketches of factory reformers, supporters of child labour, factory workers, tactics and issues, Factory Acts, and Statistics of the time period.

The Industrial Revolution

http://britishhistory.about.com/aboutuk/britishhistory/cs/industrialrev/

Features fully annotated links to extensive information about the Industrial Revolution in Britain. Includes a timeline and a study of inventions.

The Industrial Revolution

http://britishhistory.about.com/aboutuk/britishhistory/cs/industrialrev/

Features annotated links to a wide variety of sites about the Industrial Revolution in England. Includes a timeline and information about industrial inventions.

Greatest Inventions: The Evolution of Man through History

http://library.thinkquest.org/C002942/home.shtml

Provides information on many popular inventions and inventors from the 15th through the 20th Centuries. Inventors include: Bell, Berners, Eastman, Edison, Einstein, Faraday, Fermi, Ford, Franklin, Gutenberg, Nobel, Volta and Watt. Inventions include: airplane, aspirin, automobile, battery, bicycle, Coca-Cola, DVD, Fax machine, light bulb, microwave oven, printing press, refrigerator, sewing machine, solar battery, steam engine, telephone, television, and the zipper. Includes annotated links to related sites. Searchable.

The Inventors of the Industrial Revolution

http://www.blupete.com/Literature/Biographies/Science/Inventors.htm

Provides an introduction and an essay on the Industrial Revolution, plus biographies (in alphabetical order) of all the key people involved. Uses some hyperlinks to additional information on the site.

Encyclopedia of British History, 1700-1950

http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/industry.html

An outstanding resource that offers extensive information on the Industrial Revolution in Britain, plus other features of the time period.

Trade Union Movement

http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/TU.htm

Provides extensive information on the trade union movement in Great Britain during the Industrial Revolution. Includes biographies of many trade unionists, histories of several trade unions, primary source documents of political legislation, and other important events and issues of the time period.

Textile Industry

http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/Textiles.htm

Provides extensive information on the textile industry during the Industrial Revolution in Great Britain. Includes technological inventions, inventors, entrepreneurs, etc. Some biographies: Crompton, Kay, Watt, Arkwright, Owens, Peel, etc. Includes discussions of life in the factories, child labour, and daily life of the time period.

Cotton Times: Understanding the Industrial Revolution

http://www.cottontimes.co.uk/

Features good background information to the Industrial Revolution in Britain, especially as it relates to the textile industry. Includes a timeline (1730-1770), biographies, descriptions of the lives of workers & children, lifestyles, transportation, important locations, etc. Some use of hyperlinks to lead to additional information. Links to related sites.

Wilberforce Central

http://www.wilberforcecentral.org/wfc/Wilberforce/index.htm

Great Churchmen - William Wilberforce

http://www.churchsociety.org/issues_new/history/wilberforce/iss_history_wilberforce_hennell-introduction.asp

William Wilberforce and the Clapham Sect

http://ds.dial.pipex.com/town/terrace/adw03/peel/religion/relig3.htm

Lord Shaftesbury and ragged schooling

http://www.infed.org/walking/wa-shaft.htm

Thomas John Barnardo

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Barnardo

Dr. Barnardo’s home

http://www.russellmb.com/history/hist1.htm

Charles Booth Online Archive

http://booth.lse.ac.uk/

Clara Collet and Charles Booth

http://www.victorianweb.org/gender/collet/booth.html

Charles Booth: Mapping London’s Poverty

http://www.csiss.org/classics/content/45

Industrial Revolution - Radicals and Reformers

http://www.cottontimes.co.uk/reformerso.htm

Information about Edwin Chadwick, William Cobbett, Richard Oastler, Robert Owen, and John Cartwright, among others.

Robert Peel

http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/PRpeel.htm

William Wyndham, Lord Grenville

http://www.victorianweb.org/history/pms/ldgren.html

Lord Grenville

http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/PRgrenville.htm

John Snow

http://www.makingthemodernworld.org.uk/learning_modules/geography/05.TU.01/?section=2

Charles Dickens

http://www.uua.org/uuhs/duub/articles/charlesdickens.html

Charles Dickens

http://www.cswnet.com/~dbruce/other/dickens.html

Pip’s World - A hypertext on Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations

http://www.umd.umich.edu/casl/hum/eng/classes/434/geweb/index.html

Provides a variety of information on Britain during the time of the Industrial Revolution as written about in Great Expectations. Provides background information on childhood, religion, education, women, London, prisons, crime, law, work, social classes, Theatres and fairs.

James Watt (Wikipedia)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Watt

James Watt

http://www.ideafinder.com/history/inventors/watt.htm

Provides quick facts and a short biography. Links to related information.

Edward Jenner

http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/edward_jenner.htm

Biography and photograph.

Edward Jenner (Wikipedia)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Jenner

Louis Pasteur

http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/louis_pasteur.htm