Industrial Revolution 1: In One Man’s Life
34 mins, 2004 Powerful drama telling the story of Tom Ward, born in 1800 in a remote Yorkshire weaving community, who moves to a mill town and sees great changes. Tom is brought up to work a hand-loom, but he finds the work, and the village life, stultifying. He feels he needs more in life… Read more »
Industrial Revolution 2: The Causes
24 mins, 2004 Presenter Dave Nellist offers in clear and entertaining terms a range of possible causes of the industrial revolution. No final answers are given: it’s up to the viewer to decide. A few great men? Maybe it was the genius of Britain’s inventors, although that idea is not so popular now. Was it… Read more »
Industrial Revolution 3: The Effects
25 mins, 2004 The classic view of the industrial revolution is that it “turned the world upside down”, but historians now question this. Dave Nellist presents the arguments. He also looks at the other popular images of the time — child labour, for example. No doubt children were exploited in the mills, but how common… Read more »