Welcome to Industrial Revolution, Textiles and Printing Resources to help develop your topic.
As well as the resource links on this page below there are two Lancashire venues which can help bring your topic to life and are well worth a visit:
Visit: Queen Street Mill Textile Museum
Visit: Helmshore Mills Textile Museum
How to use this page: Click on a topic area from the tabs on the left to reveal links and suggestions for pre and post visit learning.
Here are our recommendations for pre and post learning resources for the topic of Industrial Revolution – Jobs for Children.
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Find out about jobs and the conditions in the mills in Preston for child workers
Resources about the jobs of Victorian children and their schooling
Information covering a range of topics about child labour
Watch this clip about working in the mill as a child
Here are our recommendations for pre and post learning resources for the topic of Industrial Revolution – Reforms.
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Talk for learning activity about the conditions in a cotton mill
Information about Richard Oastler, anti-child worker campaigner
Information about the different factory acts
What do these factory acts tell you about the type of people working in the factories during the industrial revolution and the possible conditions they could have experienced?
Use these sources to investigate if factory acts improved the working conditions of children
Here are our recommendations for pre and post learning resources for the topic of Industrial Revolution – Industries.
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Information about the process cotton goes through at the mill
Make a timeline to show the process cotton goes through to produce yarn.
Here are our recommendations for pre and post learning resources for the topic of Industrial Revolution – Printing and Dyeing.
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Film describing screen printing to children
Describes different types of printing