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Kirstie Blair
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Michael Sanders
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- Explore the range of activities involved in working in factories and mills in the long nineteenth century, and how these changed during the period covered by the course.
- Assess representations of millworkers from this period, as well as writings by the workers themselves, and discuss how they relate to wider questions of class, gender, and professional identity.
- Investigate how museums represent factory workers.
- Locate material relevant to this field through online archives.
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