Accounts of the Potato Revolution  www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1695potato.html Writings of various authors.

Child Labour  www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/IRchild.main.htm 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.

Cotton Times - Understanding the Industrial Revolution  www.cottontimes.co.uk 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.

Cotton Town  www.cottontown.org/page.cfm?pageid=257 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.

Eccles, Manchester, Canals and Revolution  www.angelfire.com/hi5/canals 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.

Factory Workers in the British Industrial Revolution  www.galbithink.org/fw.htm Papers on children, men, and women as factory workers as complete texts and abstracts by Douglas Galbi.

A History of Cotton Mills and the Industrial Revolution  narvellstrickland1.tripod.com/cottonmillhistory2/index1.html Extensive excerpt from a book on the development of the textile industry in the United States, including New England and Mississippi.

Industrial Revolution  www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook14.html A comprehensive entry on the Industrial Revolution.

Industrial Revolution  members.tripod.com/xu_chen/indusrevolt A slide show presentation on the Industrial Revolution, including a look at inventions, labor laws, and socialism.

The Industrial Revolution  mars.wnec.edu/~grempel/courses/wc2/lectures/industrialrev.html Professor Gerhard Rempel's introduction to the Industrial Revolution.

The Industrial Revolution and the Railway System  www.mtholyoke.edu/courses/rschwart/ind_rev Features a range of historical information and data including research papers, images, and extracts from the Illustrated London News.

Lectures on The Industrial Revolution in England  socserv2.socsci.mcmaster.ca/~econ/ugcm/3ll3/toynbee/indrev The full text by Arnold Toynbee in 1884.

Leeds Woollen Workers Petition  www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1786machines.html A petition by workers complaining about the effects of machines on the previously well-paid skilled workers.

Letter of Leeds Cloth Merchants  www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1791machines.html Defense on the use of machines.

Steam Engine Library  www.history.rochester.edu/steam A collection of historical documents.

What the Industrial Revolution Did for Us  www.open2.net/industrialrevolution Explores the advances in science and engineering and how their effects are still felt today.

The Wolverhampton Gunlock Makers  www.wolverhampton-gunlocks.fslife.co.uk A sketch history of the family businesses who produced gunlocks (firing mechanisms for guns) from the 18th century to present day.