ABSTRACT
All students of history use maps. This atlas is designed specifically to enhance the understanding of British history since 1700, as well as emphasizing social as well as economic change. The contributors are all subject specialists who have taught in higher education institutions, and a large proportion of both maps and text is based on their own original research. The combination of maps and text is intended to illustrate not only historical developments, such as the spread of agriculture or the growth of an integrated transport system, but also regional contrasts at points in time. The end product offers support for those historians who question the usefulness of thinking in terms of national economic histories.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter 1|2 pages
Agriculture Bedford New College, University of
Peter Dewey English open-field farming c. 1700
chapter 2|22 pages
The textile and chemicals industries Lancashire Polytechnic
Geoff Timmins and Rex Pope Textiles
chapter 8|10 pages
Urbanization and living conditions Callum Brown, University of Strathclyde
Callum Brown
chapter 9|7 pages
Labour movements Keith Laybourn, Huddersfield Polytechnic
Keith Laybourn Luddism 1811–17 and Luddism in Yorkshire 1812–13
chapter 10|13 pages
Education: late nineteenth-century disparities in provision Bill Marsden, University of Liverpool
Bill Marsden
