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Industrial Revolution

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  • Agricultural revolution in Britain
  • Did standards of living improve in the Industrial Revolution (Economist)
  • Boiler room (advanced steam engines - images)
  • How an internal combustion engine worked
  • Energy Story (explains the different types of energy)
  • Dan Snow's History of Railways (video series)
  • 8 Ways Railway Travel Changed Everything for Britain 
  • Industrial Revolution (text heavy but informative and written with light touch)
  • British Empire for kids
  • Empire and Industry, 1750-1850(National Archives, UK)
  • Making the Modern World (animations of inventions)
  • Globalization and race for resources (statistics)
  • Energy Facts
  • Spread of industrialization and spread of railways (statistics)
  • Spinning the web: The story of the cotton industry
  • Animated engines
  • Cotton Times: Understanding the Industrial Revolution
  • Great Inventors and their Inventions
  • Crystal Palace (video about the largest structure in the world)
  • Brief history of iron and steel production (clear overview that explains, among other things, where pig iron and coke got their name)
  • Origins of industrial revolution
  • Industrial Economy
  • Great inventors of the industrial revolution
  • A Web of English History (includes primary sources)
  • Conditions of the Working Class in England(Engels) (primary source)
  • Child Labor Resources (ReadWriteThink)
  • Agricultural revolution (BBC)
  • Landscapes of the Industrial Revolution in Britain
  • Industrial Revolution and the Railway System
  • Workshop of the world (incl. links to interactive content)
  • Industrial Revolution / Shaping of the Modern World (Brooklyn College)
  • Industrial Manchester (Engels)
  • Marx/Engels News Media Interviews
  • Leeds Woollen Workers Petition, 1786
  • Letter of Leeds Cloth Merchants 1791
  • Railways in the 19th Century
  • Scientific American Reference Manual (1905)​​

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    • Podcasts on history and the news