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. She discusses factors such as commercial culture, empire and access to raw materials, the role o...
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Around 1760
- American Declaration of Independence (1776)
- Industrial Revolution (1760)
- Presidency of George Washington (1789)
- French Revolution (1789)
- Industrial Revolution begins (1760)
- American Revolution (1775)
- American Revolutionary War (1775)
- Napoleon Bonaparte (1769)
- Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations (1776)
- US Constitution (1787)