History/Economics: Story of the Cotton Industry
"Spinning the Web" brings together a "collection of some 20,000
items from libraries, museums and archives of North West England which tell the story of the Lancashire Cotton Industry." Includes data on the British textile industry, cotton mills, the Lancashire cotton famine, cotton districts and towns, living conditions of cotton mill workers, machinery, uses of cotton, etc. <http://www.spinningtheweb.org.uk>
items from libraries, museums and archives of North West England which tell the story of the Lancashire Cotton Industry." Includes data on the British textile industry, cotton mills, the Lancashire cotton famine, cotton districts and towns, living conditions of cotton mill workers, machinery, uses of cotton, etc. <http://www.spinningtheweb.org.uk>
posted by John Gabree at 11/02/2005
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