Industrial

Published entries focused on everyday life in industrializing cities, including factory labor, migration, housing pressure, public health, transport, food access, and working-class routines.

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130 entries

Northern and Western Europe

• Daily life in Belfast during the late 19th century
• Daily life in Dundee during the late 19th century
• Daily life in Glasgow during the late 19th century
• Daily life in Bradford during the late 19th century
• Daily life in Sheffield during the late 19th century
• Daily life in Stoke-on-Trent during the late 19th century
• Daily life in Leeds during the late 19th century
• Daily life in Newcastle upon Tyne during the late 19th century
• Daily life in Middlesbrough during the late 19th century
• Daily life in Hull during the late 19th century
• Daily life in Cardiff during the late 19th century
• Daily life in Swansea during the late 19th century
• Daily life in Merthyr Tydfil during the mid-19th century
• Daily life in Manchester during the mid-19th century
• Daily life in Oldham during the late 19th century
• Daily life in Preston during the late 19th century
• Daily life in Liverpool during the mid-19th century
• Daily life in Birmingham during the mid-19th century
• Daily life in Reykjavik during the 19th century
• Daily life in Kiruna during the early 20th century
• Daily life in Rjukan during the early 20th century
• Daily life in Tampere during the late 19th century
• Daily life in Le Creusot during the late 19th century
• Daily life in Lyon during the late 19th century
• Daily life in Saint-Etienne during the late 19th century
• Daily life in Lille during the late 19th century
• Daily life in Roubaix during the late 19th century
• Daily life in Antwerp during the late 19th century
• Daily life in Rotterdam during the late 19th century
• Daily life in Liege during the late 19th century
• Daily life in Charleroi during the late 19th century
• Daily life in Marseille during the 19th century

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Central and Eastern Europe

• Daily life in Essen during the late 19th century
• Daily life in Bochum during the late 19th century
• Daily life in Duisburg during the early 20th century
• Daily life in Dortmund during the late 19th century
• Daily life in Wuppertal during the late 19th century
• Daily life in Bremen during the late 19th century
• Daily life in Hamburg during the late 19th century
• Daily life in Chemnitz during the late 19th century
• Daily life in Lodz during the late 19th century
• Daily life in Gdansk during the late 19th century
• Daily life in Ostrava during the late 19th century
• Daily life in Ústí nad Labem during the late 19th century
• Daily life in Katowice during the late 19th century
• Daily life in St. Petersburg during the late 19th century
• Daily life in Ivanovo during the late 19th century
• Daily life in Vienna during c. 1900
• Daily life in Berlin during the Weimar Republic

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Urals

• Daily life in Nizhny Tagil during the late 19th century

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Southern Europe

• Daily life in Barcelona during the late 19th century
• Daily life in Bilbao during the late 19th century
• Daily life in Turin during the early 20th century
• Daily life in Milan during the early 20th century

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Africa

• Daily life in Cairo during the late 19th century
• Daily life in Alexandria during the late 19th century
• Daily life in Johannesburg during the early 20th century
• Daily life in Kimberley during the diamond-mining boom
• Daily life in Cape Town during the late 19th century
• Daily life in Lagos during the colonial era
• Daily life in Zanzibar during the 19th century

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West and Central Asia

• Daily life in Baku during the late 19th-century oil boom

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South Asia

• Daily life in Ahmedabad during the late 19th century
• Daily life in Coimbatore during the early 20th century
• Daily life in Mumbai during the late 19th century
• Daily life in Kolkata during the late 19th century
• Daily life in Kanpur during the late 19th century
• Daily life in Jamshedpur during the early 20th century

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East Asia

• Daily life in Osaka during the Meiji period
• Daily life in Yokohama during the Meiji period
• Daily life in Kobe during the Meiji period
• Daily life in Kobe shipyards during the Meiji period
• Daily life in Nagasaki shipyards during the Meiji period
• Daily life in Nagoya during the Meiji period
• Daily life in Kyoto during the Meiji period
• Daily life in Tokyo during the Meiji period
• Daily life in Yawata during the early 20th century
• Daily life in Sapporo during the early 20th century
• Daily life in Shanghai during the early 20th century
• Daily life in Tianjin during the early 20th century
• Daily life in Hanyang during the early 20th century
• Daily life in Dalian during the early 20th century
• Daily life in Fushun during the early 20th century

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Southeast Asia

• Daily life in Surabaya during the early 20th century
• Daily life in Bandung during the Dutch colonial industrial era
• Daily life in Hanoi during the French colonial period

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The Americas

• Daily life in Lowell during the 1840s
• Daily life in Lawrence during the late 19th century
• Daily life in Fall River during the late 19th century
• Daily life in Providence during the late 19th century
• Daily life in Paterson during the late 19th century
• Daily life in Newark during the late 19th century
• Daily life in Trenton during the late 19th century
• Daily life in Montreal during the 19th century
• Daily life in Toronto during the late 19th century
• Daily life in Hamilton, Ontario during the early 20th century
• Daily life in Pittsburgh during the late 19th century
• Daily life in Scranton during the late 19th century
• Daily life in Buenos Aires during the early 20th century
• Daily life in Rosario during the early 20th century
• Daily life in Sao Paulo during the early 20th century
• Daily life in Valparaiso during the late 19th century
• Daily life in Mexico City during the Porfiriato era
• Daily life in Havana during the late 19th century
• Daily life in Chicago during the early 20th century
• Daily life in Milwaukee during the late 19th century
• Daily life in Minneapolis during the flour milling boom
• Daily life in Gary during the early 20th century
• Daily life in Cleveland during the early 20th century
• Daily life in Buffalo during the early 20th century
• Daily life in Youngstown during the early 20th century
• Daily life in Cincinnati during the late 19th century
• Daily life in St. Louis during the late 19th century
• Daily life in Detroit during the 1920s
• Daily life in New York City during the Gilded Age
• Daily life in Philadelphia during the Gilded Age
• Daily life in Baltimore during the Gilded Age

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Oceania

• Daily life in Melbourne during the 1880s
• Daily life in Auckland during the early 20th century – Timber homes, household meals, harbour and factory work, Māori community life, trams, laundry, and clothing in Auckland around 1900–1925.
• Daily life in Sydney during the 1880s – Terrace households, market gardens, harbour labour, Aboriginal communities, steam transport, and clothing in 1880s Sydney.

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More entries

• Daily life in Adelaide during the late 19th century
• Daily life in Ballarat during the 1860s
• Daily life in Brisbane during the late 19th century
• Daily life in Broken Hill during the 1890s
• Daily life in Christchurch during the late 19th century
• Daily life in Dunedin during the 1880s
• Daily life in Fremantle during the early 20th century
• Daily life in Hobart during the late 19th century
• Daily life in Newcastle, New South Wales during the early 20th century
• Daily life in Wellington during the early 20th century

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