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- Britain - Changing Lives
- c.1066 |Medieval Manor
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- c.1348 |The Black Death
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- c.1853 |The Vision of Titus Salt
- c.1875 |Cities Transformed
- c.1910 |A Golden Age?
- c.1984 |Death of Industry
- Britain - Rulers & Ruled
- c.1066 |Norman Conquest
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- Britain - Nations & Empire
- Smallpox Through Time
- c.1045BC |Face of a Pharaoh
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- c.1617 |Smallpox in America
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- c.1758 |The Speckled Monster
- c.1796 |Jenner's Breakthrough
- c.1800 |The Vaccine Triumphant
- c.1806 |Ox-faced Boys
- c.1853 |Public Health & Protest
- c.1896 |Epidemic on Camera
- c.1967 |Global Action
- c.2010 |Smallpox Today
- The American West
- Britain - Changing Lives
- This Module
- This module explains how mechanization necessitated the creation of factories, and how factories changed the way we worked. It explores the creation, in the Industrial Revolution, of a whole new culture of work, governed by the factory bell. It explores divisions between the workers and the new capitalist class, the entrepreneurs, and it explores working conditions on the factory floor and the issue of child labour.
- Credits
History of Britain - Changing Lives
An exploration of the factory system, introduced in the late 18th century, and its impact on our working lives. (7 mins)
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Chapter Breakdown
- 1. How did the Industrial Revolution impact ordinary people? A visit to Quarry Bank Mill in Cheshire.
- 2. Machines and factories transformed our lives, creating the modern culture of 'working life'.
- 3. The factory system - a contract between workers and 'capitalist' factory owners.
- 4. What was life like on the factory floor?
- 5. Child labour - and how it was justified. The human cost of this 'glorious experiment'.
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Location details
This module was all shot at Quarry Bank Mill in Styal, Cheshire, just south of Manchester.
It's one of the best preserved industrial mills in Britain, boasting a weaving shed, a mule shed, and a massive water wheel that was smelted in 1904 to replace the mill's original wheel.
Styal is chock full of interest. Make sure you visit the Apprentice House which housed the paupers that worked at the mill. There's no better place to get a real sense of the lives of industrial workers in the early decades of the Industrial Revolution, before water-power was superseded by steam.
DVD
DVD Coming Soon!
We hope to release a new DVD pack containing all the video modules for the British timelines including 'Changing Lives', 'Rulers & Ruled', and 'Empire & Nations'.
