Tag: British Industrial History

• Robert Owen (1771-1858) of Newtown, Montgomeryshire

  

  Industry, Community, and the Moral Reconstruction of Society Few individuals produced by rural Wales exercised an influence so disproportionate to their origins as Robert Owen (1771–1858) of Newtown. Born in a modest Montgomeryshire market town at the edge of upland Wales, Owen became one of the most consequential social thinkers of the Industrial Revolution, a…

  Antony David Davies

  28/02/2026

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