Resources
Internet Resources
The Critical Thinking Community, The Foundation for Critical Thinking
http://www.criticalthinking.org/pages/the-role-of-socratic-questioning-in-thinking-teaching-learning/522
Fordham University, Modern History Sourcebook, Industrial Revolution
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook14.asp
Teaching History.org, Four Reads: Learning to Read Primary Documents
http://teachinghistory.org/teaching-materials/teaching-guides/25690
Paintings, Prints and Photographs
See above section titled "Questioning Artwork" for a questioning model being applied to some of the paintings and prints listed below.
- Joseph Write of Derby, An Iron Forge, 1772, Tate Britain Museum
- Phillip James deLoutherbourg, Coalbrookedale by Night, 1801, Science Museum London
- William James Muller, Forging the Anchor, 1833, Bristol Museum & Art Gallery
- Adolph Menzel, The Iron Rolling Mill, 1872, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
- John Ferguson Meir, The Gun Foundry, 1866, Putnam Country History Society
- Thomas Allom, Powerloom Weaving, 1835
- William Orpen, The Wash House, 1905, Studio International
- Samuel Melton Fisher, Clerkenwell Flower Makers, 1896, Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarena
- R. Barnes, Making Artificial Flowers, 1889, Peter Jackson Collection
- Cyrus Cuneo, The Cotton Lock Out: A War of Women
- Making Creams, Fry's Cocoa Advertisement, Illustrated London News, March 22, 1984
Readings for Students
See section titled "Primary Documents" for annotated descriptions of each source.
- Harriet Robinson: Lowell Mill Girls
- Andrew Ure: The Philosophy of the Manufacturers, 1835
- Observations on the Loss of Woollen Spinning, 1794
- Gaskell, P., The Manufacturing Population of England. The Physical Deterioration of the Textile Workers, 1833, London
- Chadwick, Edwin, Report from the Poor Law Commissioners on an Inquiry into the Sanitation
- Conditions of the Labouring Population of Great Britain, Chadwick's Report on Sanitary Conditions, 1842, London
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