The Industrial Revolution (TRIH ep 108)
1760 · Resource
In this episode Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook interview Emma Griffin (professor of modern British history and president of the Royal Historical Society) about the Industrial Revolution. Griffin argues the Industrial Revolution is a genuine turning point — socially, economically and environmentally — and explains why it began in Britain in the late 18th/early 19th century rather than elsewhere.
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Around 1760
- Seven Years' War (1756)
- Presidency of George Washington (1789)
- Industrial Revolution (1760)
- American Declaration of Independence (1776)
- American Revolution (1765)
- Haitian Revolution (1791)
- Jacobite rising of 1745 (1745)
- French Revolution (1789)
- Latin American wars of independence (1808)
- Industrial Revolution begins (1760)