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

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University of Strathclyde

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

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

The course Working Lives in the Factories and Mills: Textile History and Heritage is an online class provided by University of Strathclyde through Future Learn. It may be possible to receive a verified certification or use the course to prepare for a degree.

Discover the lives of textile industry workers during the Victorian era, and better understand Britain’s industrial heritage.

Course description

Learn how textile workers’ lives evolved alongside the textile industry
4 weeks

On this course, you’ll explore the relationship between textile factory labour in the past and British industrial heritage today.
You’ll delve into a fascinating period of development for one of Britain’s key industries and discover how workers’ lives changed throughout the Victorian period, as they adjusted to new professional identities, workplaces and technology.
Through video, you’ll be introduced to four different millworkers’ heritage sites: New Lanark, Stanley Mills in Perthshire, Verdant Works in Dundee and Quarry Bank Mill in Cheshire, as you explore their history.

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.

This course is designed for anyone interested in working-class history and literature, the Victorian period, industrial heritage or museums, and those exploring family or local histories related to this industry.

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Prerequisites & Facts

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

Course Topic

British History, History, Social History

University, College, Institution

University of Strathclyde

Course Skill Level

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Course Language

English

Place of class

Online, self-paced (see curriculum for more information)

Degree

Certificate

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

To obtain a verified certificate from Future Learn / University of Strathclyde you have to finish this course or the latest version of it, if there is a new edition. The class may be free of charge, but there could be some cost to receive a verified certificate or to access the learning materials. The specifics of the course may have been changed, please consult the provider to get the latest quotes and news.

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