The Story, Source, Scholarship resources found below relate to enquiries or schemes of work on the Industrial period and includes resources on the Industrial era including the Industrial Revolution, The Transatlantic Slave Trade, The British Empire, and The American Civil War. Please scroll through to view the current library of resources and click to download using the links below.
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The Industrial Revolution
What do the events of Peterloo reveal to historians about British Democracy at the start of the 19th Century? @mrwmhistory
Why was ‘Germ Theory’ a breakthrough in medical understanding? @katie1matthews
What impact did Joseph Lister have on the progress of medicine in the Industrial era? @MrClark_History
What were towns like in the 19th century? @MrFinnHistory
How useful are sources from Quarry Bank Mill for a historian studying the experiences of workers in the industrial revolution? @MrBWilliams3
What was public health like in nineteenth century Britain? @MissAThomas
What does Whitechapel reveal to use about the difficulties of policing? Katie Cure
How did the Industrial Revolution change transport in Britain? @kanepittard
What was leisure like during the Industrial Revolution in England? @kanepittard
How significant was the Cholera epidemic in changing the Government’s approach to Public Health? @mrwmhistory
What was the significance of public health reformers in Industrial Britain? Sheriza Wadhwani Samtani
How far was Britain’s cotton industry tied to slavery? @mossl32
What was the cost of ‘Old King Coal’? @Batesy70
Why was punishment changing in the 19th century? (@kat_oc_kearey)
How was Edwardian Society divided? @cj_history
Who were the ‘Peaky Blinders’ @Joel Round
The Transatlantic Slave Trade
What can Slave Narratives tell us about life on the plantations? Rosie Culkin-Smith
What impact did the slave trade have on Africa? @joannemaraschin
Harriet Tubman and the underground railroad. @livealicevarn
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Why was the Statue of Edward Colston Removed? @SPBeale
How did Granville Sharpe contribute to the abolitionist cause? @HowardBarnhurst
The British Empire
How did Britain use racism to justify the expansion of its empire? @DanielD99588807
Why did the British want an Empire? @Duffy_History
What does the story of Cecil Rhodes reveal to historians about the importance of Africa for the British? @mrwmhistory
How did the British win the Anglo-Zulu War? @laurenfran_x
What was the impact of Britain’s penal colony on the ‘sunstruck dungeon’ of New South Wales, Australia? @mrwmhistory
How did the British Empire use repression to expand its empire? The Boer War case study. @DanielD99588807
Was India treated as the “Jewel” of the empire? Fergus O’ Donovan
How was the Amritsar Massacre a turning point for the Indian Independence movement? @MS_PatelHistory
What is the legacy of the British Empire? @EHP89
The American Civil War
The American Civil War – 1861-1865 @historyjenn
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