4. Story of England: Industrial Revolution
Dan Snow's History Hit
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The Industrial Revolution in Stoke-on-Trent
As industry gets much larger scale, the geography of this area doesn't allow for that expansion. It's relatively hilly around here. There are no large flat areas. We don't have seven flat acres anywhere in this gorge. So the ability to expand to get maximum production is not there for you. And that means that this area falls behind other areas. It's an early area and it didn't modernise particularly either. This is the very first incarnation of the Industrial Revolution here. Absolutely. That does just unsustainable by the late 1800s. The decline here really does coincide with the death of Victoria. To give it a felt like a passing of an era when she died.
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