Big State and the Industrial Revolution

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From government intervention and workshop ingenuity, to Britain's 'mind blowing historical carbon debt' and ground that's been polluted for 200 years, via the slave economies of Jamaica and the southern US states. John Gallagher discusses new lines of thinking on the Industrial Revolution with historians Emma Griffin of the University of East Anglia, and William Ashworth of the University of Liverpool. More information about the new research project into what digital research can tell us about the Industrial Revolution can be found at Living With Machines https://livingwithmachines.ac.uk/ Emma Griffin's new book Bread Winner: An Intimate History of the Victorian Economy is out now. It uses hundreds of autobiographies from the Victorian period to put together a study the way women and children were often left behind as the economy boomed. She is a BBC/AHRC New Generation Thinker. William Ashworth has published The Industrial Revolution: The State, Knowledge and Global Trade This episode is one of a series of conversations produced in partnership with the Arts and Humanities Research Council, part of UK Research & Innovation. Producer: Luke Mulhall