PELHAM HIGH SCHOOL LIBRARY MEDIA CENTER

The mission of Pelham High School is to educate students so that they may pursue life goals, 
participate fully as active citizens, and become socially responsible community members.

                                                                        Mr. Torrissi's Class- Industrial Revolution Primary Research

Spartacus.net- list of primary sources by industry

Industrial Revolution Sites from Fordham University

History Wiz- A list of Industrial Revolution Links and Primary Documents

Primary Source Documents- Industrial Revolution

Spartacus.net- Industrial Revolution History Websites

Life in Britain during the Industrial Revolution- first hand accounts

Factory workers in the British Industrial Revolution

Two primary source letters from a factory worker to her parents

The following links are from www.teacherlink.org:

Factory Owners

World History Archives:  Excerpt from Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations (1776)
http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/25/035.html

The Spartacus Internet Encyclopedia:  British History 1700-1900; Business Leaders and Entrepreneurs
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/business.htm

The Peel Web: Factory Movement
http://dspace.dial.pipex.com/mbloy/peel/factopic.htm

The Victorian Web
http://landow.stg.brown.edu/victorian/misc/search.html

Factory Workers

The Spartacus Internet Encyclopedia:  British History 1700-1900; The Textile Industry
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/Textiles.htm

The Spartacus Internet Encyclopedia:  British History 1700-1900; The Textile Industry; The Trade Union Movement
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/TU.htm

The Peel Web: Factory Movement
http://dspace.dial.pipex.com/mbloy/peel/factopic.htm

The Life of the Industrial Worker in 19th Century England
http://applebutter.freeservers.com/worker/

The Victorian Web
http://landow.stg.brown.edu/victorian/misc/search.html

Mine Workers

The Peel Web
http://dspace.dial.pipex.com/mbloy/peel/peelhome.htm

The Haig Colliery Mining Museum
http://www.haig1.freeserve.co.uk/index.html

The Life of a Coal Miner
http://www.history.ohio-state.edu/projects/coal/lifeofCoalminer/

The Victorian Web
http://landow.stg.brown.edu/victorian/misc/search.html

Elizabeth Strauss, Media Generalist
Pelham High School Library Media Center
bstrauss@pelhamsd.org