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.
Industrial Revolution A slide show presentation on the Industrial Revolution, including a look at inventions, labor laws, and socialism.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Industry Revolution A brief introduction to the revolution with information on the causes, inventions, and inventors.
