Industry, Trade and Settlement Before the Factory System

Agenda Theme 2

2.1: What can we learn from archaeological, building and documentary sources of the development of metal mining, quarrying and other industries from prehistoric times to the period immediately preceding the Industrial Revolution?

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2.2: What roles may medieval monastic communities have played in the early development of industry and what impact may the Dissolution of establishments such as Darley Abbey have had upon economic growth?

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2.3: What industries can be identified prior to the Industrial Revolution, how were these interrelated and how did the technical and intellectual skills that developed during this period contribute to the industrialisation of the Derwent Valley?

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2.4: What can be deduced from the distribution of prehistoric and later artefacts and raw materials about patterns of exchange and trade prior to the development of the factory system?

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2.5: Can we shed further light upon the development of early land- and water-based communications routes (for example, packhorse tracks), what contributions did these make to industrialisation and how may we illuminate the relationship between the utility, bulk and value of cargoes?

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2.6: What evidence is there for the management and exploitation of riverine resources prior to the Industrial Revolution (in the form, for example, of fishweirs, training weirs and mill dams)?

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2.7: What was the extent and nature of domestic spinning and weaving prior to the development from the 18th century of the major textile factories?

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2.8: How did the markets for the natural resources and manufactured goods of the Derwent Valley develop prior to the Industrial Revolution?

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2.9: Can we shed further light upon changes in the pattern and morphology of pre-industrial settlements?

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