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Factory and Public Health Acts (1833–48)
On the Industrial Revolution map as “Westminster”
1833–1848 — Parliament acts on industrial work and town sanitation through the Factory Act (1833), the Mines Act (1842), the Ten Hours Act (1847) and the Public Health Act (1848). These are the first laws in the world to regulate them.
When 1833–1848 Type Turning point Chapter Urbanisation and the Factory Acts (chapter 5 of Industrial Revolution)Atlas The Industrial Revolution, 1750–1914 TURNING POINT · THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION, 1750–1914 These maps are reconstructed from published sources · Bartholomew: Literary & Historical Atlas of Europe,1914 · BGS Geology625k: Coal Measures bedrock polygons · Canal & River Trust: historic canals · Cliopatria v 0.2.1 · Natural Earth physical geography · Maps of History: industrial geography reconstruction record · Science Museum Group: Liverpool & Manchester Railway · UNESCO: Cornwall and West Devon mining · UNESCO: Derwent Valley Mills · UNESCO: Nord-Pas de Calais mining basin · HGIS Germany / IEG: Zollverein accession chronology
Source details John George Bartholomew,1914; economic maps printedpp48–49 and53; railwayspp50–51. Original author died1920. Public-domain original scan; commercially restricted MapsETC derivative not used.. Public-domain original historical cartography; geographic facts independently reconstructed Contains British Geological Survey materials © UKRI2026. Geological outlines are not mine-operation boundaries.. Open Government Licence3.0; free commercial reuse with attribution Canal & River Trust route histories, named canal endpoints and opening chronology.. Independent named-route reconstruction; no modern map artwork copied Cliopatria contributors / Seshat Global History Databank. Selected, combined, reprojected and corrected by Maps of History as described per layer.. CC BY4.0 Made with Natural Earth; present coastlines support physical clipping, not historical political boundaries.. Public domain Named districts and route stations from the linked published atlases. District perimeters are interpretive economic regions, not sovereign borders or parcel-level industrial land use.. Original independent thematic reconstructions; source artwork not embedded Science Museum Group; opening1830 and route endpoints, with contemporary atlas route geography.. Historic facts used for independent reconstruction UNESCO World Heritage Centre; named industrial locations and period evidence. The atlas district is not a copy of the modern UNESCO property boundary.. Factual geographic evidence; property artwork not redistributed UNESCO World Heritage Centre; named industrial locations and period evidence. The atlas district is not a copy of the modern UNESCO property boundary.. Factual geographic evidence; property artwork not redistributed UNESCO World Heritage Centre; named industrial locations and period evidence. The atlas district is not a copy of the modern UNESCO property boundary.. Factual geographic evidence; property artwork not redistributed Leibniz Institute of European History; member polity vectors come separately from CC BY Cliopatria. Customs membership is not sovereignty.. Membership facts only; HGIS artwork and datasets not copied Country fills apply the existing educational industrialisation stages to dated published polities. They do not imply that development was uniform throughout each empire. Economic districts represent thematic regions. Source dates and reconstruction methods are recorded separately.
reconstruction: 1785 · reconstruction: 1800 · reconstruction: 1820 · reconstruction: 1830 · reconstruction: 1840 · reconstruction: 1842 · reconstruction: 1848.27 · reconstruction: 1850 · reconstruction: Named district within chapter chronology · vector: 1811–1869 · vector: 1814–1863 · vector: 1815–1937 · vector: 1820–1863 · vector: 1820–1864 · vector: 1820–1865 · vector: 1820–1869 · vector: 1820–1899 · vector: 1828–1865 · vector: 1834–1858 · vector: 1836–1855 · vector: 1836–1862 · vector: 1840–1852 · vector: 1840–1858 · vector: 1840–1863 · vector: 1840–1865 · vector: 1840–1867 · vector: 1840–1869 · vector: 1840–1872 · vector: 1842–1863 · vector: 1846–1852 · vector: 1848–1852 · vector: 1848–1935 · vector: 1849–1852 · vector: 1849–1858 · vector: 1849–1859 · vector: Carboniferous geology / published2007
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