As part of BBC Radio 3’s New Thinking podcast series, Dr William Ashworth from the Department of History discusses new lines of thinking on the Industrial Revolution – ‘New Thinking: It all begins here? Understanding the Industrial Revolution’.
From government intervention and workshop ingenuity, to Britain’s ‘mind blowing historical carbon debt’, Dr Ashworth shares his research with presenter Joel Gallagher and historian Dr Emma Griffin.
There’s absolutely no doubt that technology plays a big role... but what’s fuelling that technological breakthrough? When you look at those innovating, they’re not using formal knowledge, it’s much more shop-floor…it’s using clockmakers, it’s using people drawn from other industries.
You can listen to the podcast now online, or catch it on BBC Radio 3 on Thursday 7th May (time TBC). The BBC’s New Thinking is in partnership with the AHRC, as part of the New Generation Thinkers scheme.
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