Illustration Portfolio: 18th, 19th and 20th Century
Industrial Revolution (cotton spinning)
Selected illustrations from The Story of Cromford Mills, a children's guidebook telling the history of Richard Arkwright and cotton spinning.
Secrets & Spies: Atmospheric illustration showing someone attempting to steal secrets from the mill
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Illustration showing links between British cotton mills and the slave trade
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Humorous educational illustration showing Richard Arkwright as a barber
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Georgian lady reading about the latest cotton fashions
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Comic strip showing a 'day in the life' of an 18th/19th century child mill worker
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Illustrations of child mill workers and simplified illustration of Arkwright's spinning frame
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Cloth trading at The Piece Hall
Selected illustrations from A Woolly Welcome to The Piece Hall, a children's trail leaflet about the history of woollen cloth making and cloth trading in West Yorkshire.
Illustration of The Piece Hall, a historic cloth hall in Halifax, West Yorkshire where woollen cloth was traded
Illustrated cloth merchant educational activity
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Step by step illustration of eighteenth century woollen cloth making process
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Lacemaking in Victorian Times
Selected illustrations from Weaving, Wonderful Webs, a children's leaflet about the history of bobbin lacemaking in Victorian times.
Character illustration of Victorian girl who is learning to be a lacemaker
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Character illustration of wealthy Victorian girl whose father owns a lace factory
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Illustration of children learning to make bobbin lace by the light of a candle stool at a Victorian lace school
First World War/Early 20th Century
Selected illustrations from various projects.
Character illustration: Young boy (around 1916)
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Character illustration: Female tram conductor during First World War (around 1916)
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Black and white illustration of man watching Belgian refugees arriving in Folkestone during World War One
British soldier reading a letter from home during the First World War
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New recruit being measured up upon enlistment to the British Army during World War One
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