Emily Chung
The Industrial Revolution drastically changed the way people lived, worked, and socialised in Britain’s large towns and cities. England rapidly urbanised in the first half of the 19th century as the country’s population moved from the agrarian countryside into growing centres of industrial activity, drawn in by the promise of work.
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