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Account for urbanisation in England
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- With the advent of the Industrial Revolution, England became the workshop of the world,
- People started moving to industrial towns giving up agriculture.
- Population growth, migration and urbanisation were the major social changes.
- Small towns became large cities. The city of London grew from a population of two million in 1840 to five million in forty years.
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