Resources: Textile Industry
Files are Microsoft Word documents unless noted otherwise.
- Daniel Defoe on the Yorkshire cloth industry, circa 1724
- Arthur Young on the Southern Woollen Industries, 1768
- Growth of Leeds and its Woollen Industry in the 18th C.
- An account of John Lombe's silk-mill at Derby, 1791
- John James on the Worsted Industry's Migration to Yorkshire, 1857
- Edward Baines on the origin of the cotton industry in England, 1835
- John Aiken on Industrialization in and around Manchester, 1795
- Aikin's Description of Robert Peel's cotton mills at Bury, 1795
- Number of Cotton Factories in Great Britain, 1787 and 1835
- James Ogden on the introduction of machines into the Manchester cotton industry, 1783
- William Radcliffe on the effects of technological change in the cotton industry, circa 1770-1803
- A Moral View of the Weaver's Trade, 1766
- A Petition Against Machinery by Yorkshire Cloth Workers, 1786
- Support for Machinery by Yorkshire Cloth Merchants, 1791
- Edward Baines on the Mechanization of Spinning, 1835
- Andrew Ure Describes a Modern Cotton Spinning Factory, 1835
- Andrew Ure on Samuel Crompton and the Spinning Mule, 1836
- Robert Owen on his rise from Tradesman to Factory Owner, 1857
- An American Visitor to Textile Mills at New Lanark, 1815
- Samuel Bamford, Autobiography of a Weaver, 1849
- Report from the Committee on the state of the woollen manufacture of England, 1806
- William Cobbett on the decline of the Old Woollen Towns, 1826
- Richard Guest on the cotton industry, 1823
- The Plight of the Handloom Weavers and the state of Industry in Lancashire and Staffordshire, 1827
- Disraeli on the Plight of the Handloom Weaver, 1845
- Andrew Ure on the Early History of the Hosiery Industry, 1836
- How a Boy Became a Mill-worker in Dundee, 1850
- The Cloth Districts Of Yorkshire, 1849-50