The third pupil book in a groundbreaking new Key Stage 3 series designed to grab pupils' attention with its fresh approach to traditional content. Industrial changes, includes * What changes did the Industrial Revolution bring to different areas? * How industrialised was Britain by 1850? Middle-class life, includes * Meet the middle-classes * Victorian middle-class life: film versus historian * How did the Industrial Revolution change the class system in Great Britain? The British Empire, includes * Christianity, commerce and civilisation * Weighing it up: did the British Empire benefit or harm colonial peoples? * British power in India: was India's experience typical? Why did it take women so long to get the vote? * How were women's lives changes by industrialisation? * Unequal society, unequal treatment: why did men and not women have the vote? * Putting women's lives on the line: the campaign for female suffrage.

Author Biography

Paul Grey , History Advisor for Havering, experienced author; Rosemarie Little, Teacher, experienced author; Andrew Wrenn, History Adviser, Cambridgeshire; co-author of Minds and Machines (Longman Think Through History); KeithWorrall, Humanities Adviser, Doncaster; co-author of History Investigations