Industrial Age
(c.1800 to 1945)
Industrialisation brought hosiery and boot and shoe factories, quarrying and coalmining, along with canals, railways, the motor car and public utilities. Significant social change accompanied it; a large expansion of the urban population, struggles for worker rights and emancipation, and the introduction of universal basic education. Two World Wars closed the period.
Sunday 17 December 2023
George Hort ‘Leicester’s Forgotten Working-class Hero’ 1783 – 1858
Steve Marquis, LAHS member and author of a recent new book on the Framework Knitters of Leicestershire, discusses here the life of an early 19th Century prominent leader of the Leicester Framework Knitters Union.