Arnold Toynbee who coned the phrase Industrial revolution, wanted to emphasise the rapidity with which this development was occurring. He justified his usage of the words by stating that they represented:

“A peaceful eve followed by a stormy dawn.”

For it was a time in history marked for its significant technological changes in the economical and agricultural industries. Women along with children were being employed to do the work. Historians like Paul Langford in his book Eighteenth Century Britain that the

“The Eighteenth Century was nothing if not an age of change.”

However, subsequent historians have offered alternative viewpoints, a revised opinion so to speak, like N C R Crafts, who argues that this Industrial Development took

To evolve, having its roots in the seventeenth

“A phenomenon involving every aspect of the

With substantial margins for error.”

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