Historical Interpretations of the Industrial Revolution in Britain

FAIN: FV-50207-09

University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth (North Dartmouth, MA 02747-2356)
Gerard M. Koot (Project Director: March 2009 to April 2012)

Funding details:
Original grant (2009) $156,647.00
Supplement (2010) $10,000.00

A five-week school teacher summer seminar in London and in Nottingham for sixteen participants to study the experience of industrialization in Britain between 1700 and 1850.

This five-week summer seminar for teachers will use contemporary sources, both text and images, major historical interpretations, and five day-long and one three-day site visits to museums, historical and archeological sites,and the built environment in London, the Midlands and the North of England to study the experience of industrualization in Britain between ca. 1700 and 1850. The seminar will meet at the Institute for Historical Research in London for one week and for four weeks at Rutland Hall, University of Nottingham.