1. Theoretical and empirical approaches to comparative regional studies are discussed in S. Pollard, Peaceful Conquest (Oxford, 1981);
2. J. Langton, ‘The Industrial Revolution and the Regional Geography of England’, Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 9 (1984);
3. P. Hudson, The Industrial Revolution (London, 1992).
4. The numbers of males employed in agriculture remained fairly steady over the nineteenth century, though they fell as a proportion of the total of males employed in Great Britain: 1841: 29%, 1851: 29%, 1861: 25%, 1871: 19%, 1881: 18%. B. R. Mitchell, British Historical Statistics (Cambridge, 1988), p. 104.
5. C. K. Harley, ‘British Industrialization Before 1841: Evidence of Slower Growth During the Industrial Revolution’, Journal of Economic History, 42 (1982), p. 268.