Why the Industrial Revolution Happened Here

BBC Four HD

11:30 PM to 12:25 AM

Wednesday 17 September

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Jeremy Black examines one of the most extraordinary periods in English history, explaining the unique economic, social and political conditions that led to the nation becoming the richest and most powerful on Earth by the 19th century. He traces the unprecedented explosion of new ideas and technological inventions that transformed an agrarian society into an increasingly industrial and urbanised one