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  2. Old Sturbridge Village - Wikipedia

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    Shoe Shop – a historic ten footer, which was a small backyard shop structure built in the 18th and 19th centuries in New England to serve as a shoemaker's shop. Such structures were usually 10 feet (3.0 m) by 10 feet (3.0 m) in area. They were forerunners of the large shoe factories that developed in New England later in the 19th century. [4]

  3. Society and culture of the Victorian era - Wikipedia

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    A similar kind of grant system to voluntary schools was used in Scotland as in England. The Education (Scotland) Act 1872 introduced many of the same kinds of reforms as were taking place in England and Wales during the later 19th century. Education was made compulsory for five to thirteen-year-olds, the structure of the system was simplified ...

  4. Life in Great Britain during the Industrial Revolution

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    A Roberts loom in a weaving shed in the United Kingdom in 1835. The nature of the Industrial Revolution's impact on living standards in Britain is debated among historians, with Charles Feinstein identifying detrimental impacts on British workers, whilst other historians, including Peter Lindert and Jeffrey Williamson claim the Industrial Revolution improved the living standards of British ...

  5. Condition-of-England question - Wikipedia

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    The working conditions for "drawers" exemplify some of the changes following the Industrial Revolution. The Condition-of-England question was a debate in the Victorian era over the issue of the English working class during the Industrial Revolution. It was first proposed by Thomas Carlyle in his essay Chartism (1839).

  6. List of open-air and living history museums in the United ...

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    Living: Late 19th-century town Sharlot Hall Museum: Prescott: Arizona: Open-air: Includes special living history programs for mid-1860s Ozark Folk Center: Mountain View: Arkansas: Living: State park with traditional crafts and music Columbia State Historic Park: Columbia: California: Living: Mid-to-late 19th-century Gold Rush town Empire Mine ...

  7. Victorian era - Wikipedia

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    The 19th century saw rapid technological development with a wide range of new inventions. This led Great Britain to become the foremost industrial and trading nation of the time. [ 70 ] Historians have characterised the mid-Victorian era (1850–1870) as Britain's 'Golden Years', [ 71 ] [ 72 ] with national income per person increasing by half.

  8. American Museum and Gardens - Wikipedia

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    The American Museum and Gardens (formerly American Museum in Britain) is a museum of American art and culture based at Claverton, near Bath, England.Its collections of American furniture, quilts and folk art are displayed in a Grade I listed 19th-century house, surrounded by gardens overlooking the valley of the River Avon.

  9. At Home: A Short History of Private Life - Wikipedia

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    At Home: A Short History of Private Life is a history of domestic life written by Bill Bryson.It was published in May 2010. The book covers topics of the commerce, architecture, technology and geography that have shaped homes into what they are today, told through a series of "tours" through Bryson's Norfolk rectory that quickly digress into the history of each particular room.