“The Industrial Revolution in Britain: Historical
Interpretations” is a five-week school teacher seminar in the
United Kingdom for sixteen participants on the Industrial
Revolution in Britain. The project, states veteran director
Gerard Koot, aims “to develop a critical appreciation for the
experience of industrialization in Britain, the historiography
of the subject, and the lasting influence these interpretations
have had on cultural values.” “[S]ince one of the chief causes
of the British Industrial Revolution was the growth and dynamism
of the London market,” the seminar begins with a week in that
city, then moves to Nottingham for four weeks with continuing
site visits that provide a “physical appreciation of the
dramatic transformation in material and social life that the
industrial revolution entailed.” Guided by education and museum
consultant Haydon Luke, participants visit, for example, the
world’s first mechanized cotton mill, a communal dwelling for
children who worked in textile mills, a coal min