Industrial Britain: The Workshop of the World

by Christine Counsell , Chris Steer

• ISBN13: 9780521424943
• ISBN10: 0521424941
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1993-08-27
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

Industrial Britain is a core text for Y9 at key stage 3 of the history national curriculum. It is written for the core study unit 'Expansion, Trade and Industry, 1700-1900'. It forms a component of the Cambridge History Programme, an investigative course which provides a coherent and progressive programme of history; is directly accessible to all pupils and offers teachers practical guidance on assessment. Industrial Britain features enquiry-based units which pose key historical questions; a careful balance of investigation and explanation; overview sections to introduce and consolidate themes and concepts; activities ranging in difficulty which enable pupils to meet the Attainment Targets and an Attainment Target matrix for pupils and teachers. Industrial Britain is accompanied by Industrial Britain: Teacher's Resource Book.

Table of Contents

Introduction: The Great Exhibition

OVERVIEW: THE WORKSHOP OF THE WORLD: 1. Population growth and urbanisation

2. Changes in farming

3. The birth of the factory

4. Iron, coal and steam

5. Canals, roads and railways

6. A worldwide Empire

7. A trading nation

OVERVIEW: CHANGES IN SOCIETY: 8. Child labour in mills and mines

9. Winners and losers

10. Squalor and splendour

11. Religion

12. On the move

13. The role of women

14. Growing up

15. The real world of work?

OVERVIEW: POWER AND AUTHORITY: 16. Power and the people

17. The Peterloo Massacre

18. The Great Reform Act

19. The Chartists

The legacy of industrialisation

Attainment target grid

Index.