For entertainment in relation to the Industrial Revolution, a list of suggested books and films are listed below.

Books:

1. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens (1861)
2. Hard Times by Charles Dickens (1854)
3. Raising Steam by Terry Hatchet (2013)
4. Mary Barton by Elizabeth Gaskell & Shirley Foster (2006)
5. The Most Powerful Idea in the World: A Story of Steam, Industry, and Invention by William Rosen (2010)
6. The First Industrial Nation: The Economic History of Britain (1700-1914) by Peter Mathias (2001)
7. Orphan Train Rider: One Boy’s True Story by Andrea Warren (1996)
8. The Industrial Revolution by Pat Hudson (1992)
9. The Long Road to the Industrial Revolution by J.L. Van Zanden (2009)
10. North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell (1994)

Films:

1. Germinal (1993)
2. Hard Times (1994)
3. Modern Times (1936)
4. Moulin Rouge (2001)
5. Oliver Twist (2005)

 

 

Citations:

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