... parliament was formal recognition of this change. This traditionalist view of history is often seen as social fact by historians. In reality it is but one conception of an entire selection of possibilities. The existence of the middle class as central to society directly after the industrial revolution is hugely question. Wahrman suggest other equally plausible readings of history. He shows that certain regions within Britian experienced rapid industrial change and others did not challenging the very notion of an Industrial revolution. Citing the cotton industry as one which did experienced rapid change but states that "broader national context, processes of social change were gradual and protracted, and -importantly - experienced unevenly." 2This when coupled with the fact that the middle class emerged in no greater number in areas of either economic or technological than in areas unaffected by industrial change suggest that industrialisation cannot alone explain the emergence of ...

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