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Important about the british industrial revolution was that it was truly different from what came before it, it was driven by the vision of people rising from relatively modest backgrounds, and trying to transform society, and that sounds really exciting, but at the end a lot of it exactly like you said, was pretty bad for the working classes, for about eight years, 90 years. the early phase is characterised by steam engines but what that meant was children as young as five or six were sent into horrible minds to work 18 hours a day, seven days a week. life expectancy fell sharply because citie...

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Winter gardens, 1963. when my father passed away, the irish times ran an obituary and highlighted how he had spent a lot of the �*50s trying to reach out because clearly we were catholics coming from derry trying to reach out to the protestant working classes and protestant workers on the basis that he was utterly convinced that the industrialists of northern ireland were using the axe and hatchet of sectarianism to divide the working classes and to exploit them. crudely, he didn't think this was, in essence, a battle between religious groups. not at all. it was a class battle. it completely...

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