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Industrial Revolution
www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook14.html
An excellent gateway site for information on agricultural, textile and engineering advancements of the 18th century, with essays on the resulting social reforms and new distinctions of class. |
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Parliamentary Reform
www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/PRparliament.htm
Excellent biographical information on the 18th-century moderate and radical reformers, the revolutionaries, the early reform groups and artists and writers active in the reform movement. |
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The Radical Reformers
www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/PRradicals.htm
A good overview of the radical reformers of the 18th century, including biographical information on Henry Hunt, John Cartwright and Richard Carlile. |
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Time Traveller's Guide to Napoleon's Empire
www.channel4.com/history/microsites/H/history/guide18/index.html
All you need to know about Napoleon's seizure of power in 1799 and the aftermath of the French Revolution. Includes information on the great cultural and political ferment of the time. |
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Understanding the Industrial Revolution – Peterloo
www.cottontimes.co.uk/peterloo.htm
A good historical account of the Peterloo massacre of 1819. At a political meeting in Manchester, led by radical reformer Henry Hunt, the cotton workers were viciously attacked without provocation by the yeomanry, yet no one was ever brought to justice. |
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Unitarian Society
www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/PRunitarian.htm
Established in 1791, its original intentions were to unite all non-conformist groups. The society drew its membership largely from the scientific professions, including Joseph Priestly who became its most important proponent in 18th-century England. |
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Britain in the Age of the French Revolution 1785-1820 by Jennifer Mori (Longman, 2000)
Examines the impact of the French Revolution and the Napoleonic aftermath on Britain and the revolutionary and democratic ideas of the period.
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The First Industrial Revolution by Phyllis Deane (Cambridge University Press, 1980)
Identifies the strategic changes in economic organisation, industrial structure and technological progress that took place in Britain between 1750 and 1850.
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Parliamentary Reform, 1785-1928 by Sean Lang (Routledge, 1999)
Looks at the changing role of Parliament from the pre-reformed Parliament through to the 1832 Great Reform Act, Chartism, the campaign for working-class suffrage, Catholic emancipation and the long struggle before the granting of female suffrage.
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The Rights of Man by Thomas Paine (Dover Publications, 1999)
Originally published in 1791, this seminal work attacked hereditary government and argued for equal political rights. Paine suggested that all men over 21 in Britain should be given the vote. This, according to Paine, would result in a House of Commons willing to pass laws favourable to the majority.
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A Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft (Everyman's Library, 1992)
First published in 1792, following the American and French revolutions, Wollstonecraft's work took prevailing egalitarian principles and dared to apply them to women. Her book is both a sustained argument for emancipation and an attack on a social and economic system.
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