HIT: Industrial Revolutions Websites (Long)

[Carolyn Gierke <cgierke@SHS.K12.NY.US>]

Thanks to all who supplied information.  Here is the hit:

INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
                        Compiled by the Sweet Home HS Information Center


Books and Print Sources:

Use the online Card Catalog to search for information on your topic

Online Databases:

Encyclopedia Britannica
http://search.eb.com
Britannica has information on everything British

Gale Group
(A fully integrated database containing thousands of curriculum-targeted
primary documents, biographies, topical essays, background information,
critical analyses, full-text coverage of 100 magazines, over 10,000
photographs and illustrations, and more than 8 hours of audio and video
clips.) Choose from The Student Resource Center  for this assignment
http://galenet.gale.com/a/acp/name/

Web Sites:

Eurodocs     http://library.byu.edu/~rdh/eurodocs/
Access to full text of primary historical documents. Links connect to
Western European (mainly primary) historical documents that are
transcribed, reproduced in facsimile, or translated. They shed light on
key historical happenings within the respective countries (and within the
broadest sense of political, economic, social and cultural history).

Multonomah County Library Homework Links - Industrial Revolution
http://www.multnomah.lib.or.us/lib/homework/eurohist.html#indust
An extensive listing of links about the Industrial Revolution, including
child labor, textile industry, and the trade union movement.

The Victorian Web
http://www.victorianweb.org/
Click on the economics and the technology buttons for useful information.

Internet Modern History Sourcebook on the Industrial Revolution
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook14.html
Links to technological and cultural information.  Includes a number of
references to people.  Takes a few minutes to load, but worth the wait.

18th Century Workers & Culture
http://dmoz.org/Society/History/By_Time_Period/Eighteenth_Century/Industrial_Revolution/

***Child Labor in the 18th Century   Make sure you look at this site!!!!
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/IRchild.main.htm
Links to information about specific people as well as social groups.

Links to other Industrial Revolution sites
http://www.windwardny.org/Disciplines/industri.htm

British History: 1700-1950
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/Britain.html
An encyclopedia of British History.  A good general site.

Class Structure of the Victorian Period
http://www.cwrl.utexas.edu/~scoggins/316british/WutheringHeights/class1.html

This is based on a book with details of daily life in Victorian England.

History of the United Kingdom during the Victorian Age
http://www.bigchalk.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/WOPortal.woa/6/wa/HWCDA/sections?flt=CAB&sid=16012&tg=
This list has been compiled by BigChalk.com.  Be sure to focus on the mid
to late
19th century.

Industrial Revolution
http://britishhistory.about.com/aboutuk/britishhistory/cs/industrialrev/index.htm?terms=luddites
Various topics about the Industrial Revolution.

Luddites
http://britishhistory.about.com/aboutuk/britishhistory/blluddites.htm?terms=%22industrial+revolution%22+%22england%22

Information about the working conditions and Ned Ludd reactions

Queen Victoria
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/PRvictoria.htm
This site provides a brief overview of her life.

The Religious Climate of Victorian England
http://www.gober.net/victorian/reports/religion.html
Detailed information from a college site with many listed sources.

Women in World history curriculum
http://womeninworldhistory.com
Information about women's roles in world history, lesson plans, etc.

Women's Work  in the Industrial Revolution
http://www.womeninworldhistory.com/lesson7.html
Some of this material is a teacher lesson plan, but there is useable
information in the
details.  For instance, the primary sources at the end of textile workers,
miners and
seamstresses.

To Locate Information on People:

Use the Gale Research site listed in the online databases section, and do
a people search.

Use these biographical web sites:
Multnomah County. Library Help Center - Biography Page
http://www.multnomah.lib.or.us/lib/homework/biohc.html
An extensive list of biographical sites is available here.

A&E Biography
http://www.biography.com/find/find.html
Search the site developed by the Arts and Entertainment Channel for short
biographical information on over 20,000 people.

Charles Babbage - Father of Computing
http://ei.cs.vt.edu/~history/Babbage.html


When you search for a person on the Internet, remember to:
Put the name in quotes:

        +"Charles Babbage" +computing

Use more than one search engine.



"In theory, there isn't any difference between theory and practice.  In
practice, there is."  - Yogi Berra

Mrs. Carolyn Gierke,  Librarian
Sweet Home High School
1901 Sweet Home Road
Amherst, NY  14228
Phone: 1-716-250-1227
FAX:    1-716-250-1360
email:  cgierke@shs.k12.ny.us

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