2025.13: Bradford and the industrial revolution: An economic history 1760-1840

Identifier: 2025.13
Title: Bradford and the industrial revolution: An economic history 1760-1840
Type: book
Format: printed
Date Created: 1990
Creator: Firth, Gary
Publisher: Ryburn Publishing Ltd
Place created: Halifax, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Description: A history of the industrial development of Bradford and its surrounding areas from the middle of eighteenth century to the middle of the nineteenth. Discusses: land ownership; wealth distribution before the industrial revolution; the transport revolution, including the building of the cancals and railways; the importance of the mineral industries in the Bradford area; the rise of the worsted trade; the urban development of Bradford.
Subject: Textile industry; Transport and communication; Extraction industries
Associated place or event: Bradford, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Rights: Only viewable in the Saltaire Collection
Rights Holder: Text copyright Gary Firth. Photographs copyright Ian Beesley
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