History A-Level
Role of individual entrepreneurs
What Role of individual entrepreneurs means in History A-Level, as defined for Pearson Edexcel.
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Robert Hickson pioneered Belfast's iron shipbuilding by opening a shipyard on Queen's Island in 1853, and Andrew Mulholland converted his York Street cotton premises to flax spinning in the 1830s.
Topics that use Role of individual entrepreneurs
- Paper 3, Option 36.2: Ireland and the Union, c1774–1923 - 2 Industrial- isation in Ulster, 1825–55 (Pearson Edexcel A-Level)
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