Working Lives in the Factories and Mills: Textile History and Heritage

What's Included

• Explore the range of activities involved in working in factories and mills in the long nineteenth century, and how these changed during the period covered by the course.
• Assess representations of millworkers from this period, as well as writings by the workers themselves, and discuss how they relate to wider questions of class, gender, and professional identity.
• Investigate how museums represent factory workers.
• Locate material relevant to this field through online archives.