The Industrial Revolution: A History of Progress and Retrogression

I was struck by in your new book Forging Modernity, why and how Britain developed the Industrial Revolution. And then we come to the turn of the 19th century and you identify the year 1830 as the height, the apotheosis of the Industrial Revolution - I would have guessed that the peak was rather later in the 1800s. You identify moment by describing a fateful railway accident which kind of crystallized the peaking of the powers that provided us with the great gift of theIndustrial Revolution. Yes, well the Tory government that Lord Liverpool had run from 1812 to 27. The canningite, as they were then called after canning, the liberal wing split off in May