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Professor Jeremy Black presents this documentary which attempts to explain why the Industrial Revolution happened in Britain, rather than France, Germany or even the United States. Professor Black discusses...
This series takes twelve inventions and explores how they have changed the way people live. They explain how these inventions came about, from sparks of genius to steady incremental improvements, and...
A series of 6 30-minute programmes in which the late Lancastrian steeplejack Fred Dibnah traces the development of industrialisation in Britain.
Audio recording of a lecture by Maxine Berg, Professor of History, Eighteenth Century Centre, University of Warwick which formed part of the ‘Inventors and Inventions: Patents, Protest and Power in the the...
Dan Cruickshank looks at the achievements of the Industrial Revolution: amongst them not only the Spinning Jenny and the steam engine, but the first jigsaw, the first stethoscope, the first tinned food and...
Dan Cruickshank looks at the development of transport during the Industrial Revolution, including the roadbuilding of John Loudon Macadam; James Brindley’s canal network; George Stephenson and the...
Prior to the Industrial Revolution, the day-to-day lives of ordinary Britons had remained unchanged for centuries. Homes were largely rural and functional, and the idea of decorative and comfortable...
Three-part documentary series chronicling the lives and achievements of a generation of great Victorian engineers. Told through the rivalries of two families, the Stephensons and the Brunels, it also...
Drama-documentary series recreating epic moments in the industrial revolution. Each episode explores a specific triumphal construction of the era.
The main programme on the DVD is aTHE BLACK COUNTRY - a thirty minute documentary made by ‘ATV Today’ in 1969 which explores the changing industry and landscape of the region through the eyes of its...
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