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This remarkable book looks at hundreds of autobiographies penned between 1760 and 1900 to offer an intimate firsthand account of how the Industrial Revolution was experienced by the working class. The Industrial Revolution brought not simply misery and poverty. On the contrary, Griffin shows how it raised incomes, improved literacy, and offered exciting opportunities for political action. For many, this was a period of new, and much valued, sexual and cultural freedom. This rich personal account focuses on the social impact of the Industrial Revolution, rather than its economic and political histories. In the tradition of best-selling books by Liza Picard, Judith Flanders, and Jerry White, Griffin gets under the skin of the period and creates a cast of colorful characters, including factory workers, miners, shoemakers, carpenters, servants, and farm laborers.

Working class --- Industrial revolution --- Autobiography. --- History --- Great Britain --- Social conditions --- Autobiographies --- Autobiography --- Egodocuments --- Memoirs --- History and criticism --- Technique --- Biography as a literary form --- Social conditions. --- Economic conditions. --- E-books --- Working class -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.. --- Industrial revolution -- Great Britain.. --- Autobiography.. --- Great Britain -- Social conditions -- 19th century.

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"This study looks at the relationship between popular recreations and the spaces in which they took place, and in doing so it provides a history of how England enjoyed itself during the long eighteenth century. Recreations of the period included: parish wakes and feasts; civic fairs and celebrations; football, cricket, and other athletic sports; bull- and bear-baiting; and the annual celebrations of Shrove Tuesday and Guy Fawkes." "Through a detailed examination of contemporary sources, Dr. Emma Griffin looks at the use of space for recreation in the streets and squares of provincial market towns, in vacant spaces found in industrialising towns and villages, and on the village greens of rural England. With its reappraisal of the impact of the industrial revolution on popular recreation, this is a fascinating study of England at play."--BOOK JACKET.

Recreation --- Sports --- Field sports --- Pastimes --- Recreations --- Athletics --- Games --- Outdoor life --- Physical education and training --- Manners and customs --- Amusements --- Community centers --- Leisure --- History --- England --- Social life and customs --- Loisirs --- Manners and customs. --- Recreatie. --- Recreation. --- Sport. --- Sports. --- Histoire --- 1700-1799. --- Angleterre --- England. --- Mœurs et coutumes

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Industrial revolution --- Great Britain --- Social conditions. --- Economic conditions.

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'Living with Machines' is the largest digital humanities project ever funded in the UK. This text describes efforts to bring together a team of twenty-three researchers to leverage more than twenty-years' worth of digitisation projects.

Digital humanities. --- Technological innovations --- Humanities --- Digital humanities --- Methodology. --- Historiography. --- History --- Breakthroughs, Technological --- Innovations, Industrial --- Innovations, Technological --- Technical innovations --- Technological breakthroughs --- Technological change --- Creative ability in technology --- Inventions --- Domestication of technology --- Innovation relay centers --- Research, Industrial --- Technology transfer

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History as a science --- Great Britain