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...accounts of the Rainhill Trials, the grand competition that The Rocket was designed and built for. We have printed handbills of the contest which show images of the locomotives involved including The Rocket. And newspapers with first-hand reports on the day’s events. Historians can then take all these and consider them alongside other relevant information they have,...

...accounts of the industrial revolution have been influenced by the political, social and economic climate of the time in which the historian was writing rather than that of the time being studied. In most cases this involves a relationship between the way in which research interests and questions are formulated and the kinds of issues active in the surrounding environment....

...accounts, together with her sister, Trung Nhi, she successfully repelled the Chinese from their village. Then, with the assistance of neighbours they put together a large army, made up largely of women, which drove the Chinese out of Vietnam. This event is still celebrated today. The following year, in 40 A.D. the sisters were made queens and successfully resisted Chinese...