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Envelope published in New York in 1861. The envelope criticises the reliance of Britain on cotton grown by enslaved people. John Bull is shown bowing to a bale of cotton, shown as a monarch, whilst kneeling on an enslaved person. John Bull has a paper in his pocket printed with the words 'Manchester'.
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An 1809 engraving by Thomas Rowlandson from an original drawing by Woodward showing the public's reaction to the first coal gas street lighting in Pall Mall, London in 1807.
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Illustration from the Report of the 1842 Royal Commission into Children's Employment (Mines).
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Private Life Of the Industrial Revolution: Social Change (45:00)
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