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The Industrial Revolution - Great Britain 1750 - 1850

The main film (22 min.) gives an overview of the causes, course and consequences of the Industrial Revolution in Great Britain. The seven modules (each 6-9 minutes) allow the deepening of individual teaching focuses: Factory system, child labour, textile technology, mechanical loom, steam engine, railway network expansion, first social reforms, etc.

The school films were shot in historic locations in England and Scotland.

modules

  1. Cromford Mill – The first factory in the world(6:52 min.)
  • Content: Richard Arkwright, Waterframe, Hydropower, Part-Work Factory System, New Machines and Production Units, Child Labour, Industrial Espionage
  1. Quarry Bank Mill - Working in a textile factory (9:05 min.)
  • Content: Samuel Greg, Calvinist work ethic, entrepreneurial initiative, from home to wage workers, dictatorship of machine and clock, discipline and control, monotony, risk of accident, child labour
  1. Textile technology - From manual to machine work (6:10 min.)
  • Content: Leading sector textile industry, cotton, spinning, weaving, quick contactors, spinning Jenny and Waterframe, mule and self-acting mule, mechanical loom, production increase
  1. The Iron Age – Coalbrookdale and the Darbys (8:03 min.)
  • Content: Abraham Darby, coal and iron instead of wood, ironworks, blast furnaces, quality improvement, Quakers, Ironbridge
  1. Steam power – symbol of a new age (6:10 min.)
  • Content: James Watt, Matthew Boulton, Mining, Rotary Steam Engine, Universal Drive
  1. Railway - The steam engine learns to run (6:41 min.)
  • Content: Richard Trevithick, George Stephenson, Railways: Stockton-Darlington and Liverpool-Manchester, Rocket and Planet, Railroad, Transportation, Travel
  1. New Lanark Mill - Robert Owen's vision for a better world (9:27 min.)
  • Content: Subsistence minimum, mass misery, child labour, model settlement, reforms, cooperatives, co-determination, education, utopian socialism

Scope: 74 minutes in total (22 minutes + 7 times 6-9 minutes)
Reference: $49.95, ISBN: 978-3-942618-14-4; Available on the publisher's website
Didactic accompanying material is here as a free download as a free download available; Film clips are also available