John Aiken on Industrialization in and around Manchester, 1795Daniel Defoe on the Yorkshire cloth industry 1724
Arthur Young on the Southern Woollen Industries, 1768
Growth of Leeds and its Woollen Industry in the 18th century
An account of John Lombe’s silk-mill at Derby, 1791
John James on the Worsted Industry’s Migration to Yorkshire, 1857
Edward Baines on the origin of the cotton industry in England, 1835
John Aiken on Industrialization in and around Manchester, 1795
Aikin’s Description of Robert Peel’s cotton mills at Bury, 1795
Number of Cotton Factories in Great Britain, 1787 and 1835
James Ogden on the introduction of machines into the Manchester cotton industry, 1783
William Radcliffe on the effects of technological change in the cotton industry, circa 1770-1803
A Moral View of the Weaver’s Trade, 1766
A Petition Against Machinery by Yorkshire Cloth Workers, 1786
Support for Machinery by Yorkshire Cloth Merchants, 1791
Edward Baines on the Mechanization of Spinning, 1835
Andrew Ure Describes a Modern Cotton Spinning Factory, 1835
Andrew Ure on Samuel Crompton and the Spinning Mule, 1836
Robert Owen on his rise from Tradesman to Factory Owner, 1857
An American Visitor to Textile Mills at New Lanark
Samuel Bamford, Autobiography of a Weaver, 1849
Report from the Committee on the state of the woollen manufacture of England, 1806
William Cobbett on the decline of the Old Woollen Towns, 1826
Richard Guest on the cotton industry, 1823
The Plight of the Handloom Weavers and the state of Industry in Lancashire and Staffordshire, 1827
Disraeli on the Plight of the Handloom Weaver, 1845
Andrew Ure on the Early History of the Hosiery Industry, 1836