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Industrial Revolution: 330.9, 909.81 | Inventions: 608-609 | British Industrial Revolution: 942.03

 Industrial Revolution: Bibliography (47.49 kB)

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Reference Articles

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Virtual Reference Library (Gale) A digital reference collection [about]

 

Encyclopedia Britannica

 

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Primary Sources

Modern History Sourcebook -contains source material in modern European, American, and Latin American history, as well as a significant amounts of material pertinent to world cultures and global studies.

Charles Booth Online Archive Survey of living conditions

Life of the Industrial Worker Health effects on the worker

Chadwick's Report on Sanitary Conditions "Edwin Chadwick (1803-1890) had taken an active part in the reform of the Poor Law and in factory legislation. The Commission's report is the third of the great reports of this epoch."

Industrial Revolution Political Cartoons

BBC Political Cartoons as Primary Sources

 

Overviews

Industrial Revolution -from a group of European teachers

Workhouses

Encyclopedia of British History

Migration During the Industrial Revolution

Women's Role in the Industrial Revolution

 

Inventions/Inventors

Encyclopaedia of British History: Textile Industry

Covers domestic system, types of textile industries, inventors, entrepeneurs, life in a textile factory, factory workers, and child labour.

Famous Inventions: A-Z

Click the letter and scroll to your invention.

Industrial Revolution Inventions (About.com)
Clearinghouse of information...somewhat commercial but useful.

Man-Made to Machining - History of the Industrial Revolution
 

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