The Industrial Revolution
In the second half of the 18th century, scientific and technological changes began to radically change the world. Mechanization and factories altered the nature of economics and society, while urbanization, and industrialization reshaped both the physical, and mental, landscape.
The story of Richard Arkwright and his great innovations, told in a chatty and engaging style by Adam Hart-Davis, one of the UK’s leading televisual historians.
Hosted by the Spartacus Encyclopaedia, this page indexes over seventy short, but implicitly hyper-linked, biographies relating to factory and child labour reforms, as well as statistics and some primary accounts.
When David Dale, and later Robert Own, established large factories alongside the Clyde falls in the late 18th century they also built an industrial village - New Lanark. This site is a brief examination of the village, and the achievements of the two men who instigated it.
