Monthly Archives: May 2022

Paper: Re-fashioning Industrial Revolution: Fibres, fashion and technical innovation in British cotton textiles, 1630-1780

Posted on 2 May, 2022 by John Styles

Click on the link below for the open-access download of John Styles’ chapter, ‘Re-fashioning Industrial Revolution: Fibres, fashion and technical innovation in British cotton textiles, 1630-1780’, in G. Nigro (ed.), Fashion as an economic engine: process and product innovation, commercial … Continue reading →

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Article: The Rise and Fall of the Spinning Jenny

Posted on 1 May, 2022 by John Styles

Open the link below for the open-access text and download of John Styles’ article, ‘The Rise and Fall of the Spinning Jenny: Domestic Mechanisation in Eighteenth-Century Cotton Spinning’, Textile History, 51 (2020), pp. 1-42. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00404969.2020.1812472

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