Maps for reading / Britain & literature
Industrial England & parliamentary reform
Read industrial districts alongside the parliamentary-representation panel. This is a visual companion to questions about labor, growing towns, and public life in Dickens.
- Period shown
- Industrial England since 1750; England and Wales in 1832
- Published
- 1911 · Atlas pages 162–163
- Suggested use
- Grades 7–12; upper-elementary map comparisons with an adult.
All grade-picker settings retain access to this map. Suggested grades describe support needs, not a restriction.
Historical judgment
Read this map carefully
The left panel summarizes an extended industrial era; the right is specifically 1832. Do not treat every industrial label as a snapshot of that year. Coketown is fictional, not a place located on this map.
No separate drawing date is established here; 1911 is the verified atlas publication date, not the period depicted.
At the table or in class
A question to begin
Compare the industrial regions with the 1832 representation panel. What question about political representation could you investigate without pretending the map alone proves the answer?
First read the map title, legend, scale, and inset headings. Then name what the map can show—and what it cannot.
Source & public-domain record
- Atlas & maker
- William R. Shepherd (atlas compiler); Velhagen & Klasing (printed credit; no individual draughtsman identified). Historical Atlas. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1911. Pages 162–163. A separate drawing date is not established by this record.
- Source institution
- University of Texas Libraries, Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection. Exact original scan · Edition catalog · Original title page · Hosted title-page evidence.
- Rights
- Public domain in the United States (PD-US-expired). This exact sheet is listed in the archive’s 1911 edition and was published in the United States in 1911, as independently confirmed by the scanned New York title page. Its underlying publication is before 1931 and outside US copyright in 2026. The archive states that its public-domain map scans may be downloaded and reused without permission; this original atlas item is not flagged as a separately copyrighted modern map. Only faithful resizing/format conversion has been applied to previews; the downloadable scan is unchanged. Archive reuse statement · 2026 US copyright-term reference. US public-domain assessment, not a worldwide legal guarantee. Check local law when reusing outside the United States.
- Credit
- From William R. Shepherd, Historical Atlas (New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1911). Scan courtesy of University of Texas Libraries.
- Download integrity
- Unchanged source JPG · 2674 × 2042 pixels · 1,039,094 bytes.
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Reviewed 2026-11-06. Download complete provenance manifest.