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ERIH Annual Conference 2013 - Save the date - Call for papers now open
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ERIH Board meeting in Katowice/Poland
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Review of the ERIH Annual Conference 2012
More than 100 delegates from 15 European Countries attended the ERIH Conference 2012 in September...
Single Biographies
History is always made by people. This, of course, equally holds true for the age of the Industrial Revolution.
Following we present a selection of personalities who influenced the European industrial history.
Josiah
Wedgwood
(1750 - 95)
Joseph Wedgwood was, in his lifetime, the best-known pottery manufacturer in Europe. He made many notable...
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William
Wilkinson
(1744 - 1808)
William Wilkinson was the principal channel through which British innovations in ironmaking in the 18th...
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Alfred
Williams
(1877 - 1930)
(Owen) Alfred Williams was a poet and writer, whose account of more than 20 years employment at the locomotive...
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Arno
Wolff
(1931)
The life of Arno Wolff, like that of so many European working men, was shaped by the Second World War....
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Eryk Josef
Woszczychi
(1921 - 2002)
Migration in search of work has always been part of the pattern of industrialisation. In the years after...
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Carl
Zeiss
(1816 - 1888)
Carl Zeiss, by origin a maker of lenses, was one of the leaders of the photographic industry in Europe...
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Emile
Zola
(1840 - 1902)
The novels of Emile Zola depict with startling clarity the inhuman and oppressive aspects of working...
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