The Industrial Revolution: everything you wanted to know
History Extra podcast
Immediate Media
4.3 • 4.5K Ratings
🗓️ 3 January 2021
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Emma Griffin tackles internet search queries and questions submitted by listeners about Britain’s Industrial Revolution
Emma Griffin tackles internet search queries and questions submitted by listeners about Britain’s Industrial Revolution, from the key inventions and cultural impact to workers’ rights and child labour.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the History Extra Podcast from BBC History magazine, Britain's best |
| 0:15.8 | selling history magazine. |
| 0:19.0 | I'm Ellie Corthon. |
| 0:26.4 | This episode is the latest in our everything you wanted to know series, in which we explore |
| 0:31.3 | a subject through questions you've sent in via social media and popular internet search |
| 0:36.3 | queries. |
| 0:37.3 | Today's topic is the Industrial Revolution, and our expert is Emma Griffin. |
| 0:43.3 | As well as being president of the Royal Historical Society, Emma has written several books on |
| 0:48.0 | the 19th century, including Liberty's Dawn, a People's History of the Industrial Revolution, |
| 0:53.9 | and Brad winner, an intimate history of the Victorian economy. |
| 0:57.7 | So first of all, let's start with the very basics. |
| 1:01.2 | What was the Industrial Revolution? |
| 1:03.4 | Okay, there's probably one of the biggest questions that you could ask me. |
| 1:09.2 | I think, I'm always preface by saying historians aren't always entirely in agreement about |
| 1:15.3 | what the Industrial Revolution is, so this is my interpretation of what I think the Industrial |
| 1:19.1 | Revolution is. |
| 1:20.6 | I think prior to industrialisation, most people, everything they ate came from the land, |
| 1:27.3 | just as it does today, but everything that they wore also came from the land and all |
| 1:34.0 | their buildings, their wooden buildings were made of wood that have obviously come from |
| 1:37.8 | the land in some way. |
| 1:39.5 | People got around on transport, so these are horses that are fed through things that come |
| 1:45.4 | out of the ground. |
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