Hanging with History

You can send a text, include contact info to get a response. Finance and medicine may seem like a mismatched pair. They wrap up our coverage of the Service Sectors in the Industrial Revolution. We...

7 Sep 202346min

You can send a text, include contact info to get a response. Service sectors were a key part of the British economy, even in the 18th century.. This shows that the Industrial Revolution was more th...

24 Aug 202351min

You can send a text, include contact info to get a response. We finish integrating the story of Britain's 3.5X rise in population from 1700-1850 by explaining how they all got fed. In complete cont...

10 Aug 202342min

You can send a text, include contact info to get a response. To what extent does foreign trade contribute to the Industrial Revolution. There is certainly some entanglement and a weak case can be b...

27 Jul 202353min

You can send a text, include contact info to get a response. Balloons and lighting rods. Platinum, not gold. Ceramics and Lighting. Chlorine bleach. We take a look at often neglected technologic...

13 Jul 202342min

You can send a text, include contact info to get a response. To what degree does technological change depend on science in the Industrial Revolution. We look at the paradigmatic cases of Steam Powe...

29 Jun 202344min

You can send a text, include contact info to get a response. This is one of the less intuitive ideas about the origins of the Industrial Revolution. An historically unique concentration of skilled ...

15 Jun 202325min

You can send a text, include contact info to get a response. We explore a couple 100 year cycles to move from Enlightenment ideas to practical products cheap and reliable enough for a large market t...

1 Jun 202331min