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Global history and the rise of the factories

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4.34.7K Ratings

🗓️ 14 November 2013

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Michael Scott chats about his new Radio 4 series Spin the Globe, while Simon Thurley guides us around an important site in Britain's Industrial Revolution Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Before it's mechanized, before you have a power shuttle, you have to throw the shuttle across the loom, and it is very, very physical.

0:56.0

That was Simon Thurley, on the strength that was needed by weavers before the process became mechanised.

0:59.8

By spinning the globe around a particular time,

1:03.2

we've been interested to try and vary the sorts of things that we're looking at,

1:05.7

you know, maybe war, maybe politics, maybe culture.

1:08.7

But at the same time, if there is a theme that's come out,

1:11.0

I guess it's the unexpected connection.

1:15.7

And that was Michael Scott, discussing his new radio series, Spin the Globe.

1:23.9

Hello and welcome to the History Extra podcast.

1:30.4

My name is Rob Atar, and I'm the editor of BBC History Magazine, which is the UK's best-selling history magazine. You can find us in all good newsagents and on subscription.

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Visit history extra.com forward slash subscribe hyphen today for subscription deals. And we have digital editions available for the iPad,

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