
Sign up to save your podcasts
Or


Historian Anton Howes discusses how Henry VIII turned Britain into an economic backwater – making it the unlikeliest place for the Industrial Revolution to happen. But, he explains it only took a small cabal of people who understood the problems of the time to turn the fate of the country (and thus, the world) around.
You can learn more about the history of the Industrial Revolution on Anton's Substack, Age of Invention. And you can learn more about progress at Works in Progress.
By Works in Progress5
99 ratings
Historian Anton Howes discusses how Henry VIII turned Britain into an economic backwater – making it the unlikeliest place for the Industrial Revolution to happen. But, he explains it only took a small cabal of people who understood the problems of the time to turn the fate of the country (and thus, the world) around.
You can learn more about the history of the Industrial Revolution on Anton's Substack, Age of Invention. And you can learn more about progress at Works in Progress.

1,940 Listeners

2,452 Listeners

608 Listeners

909 Listeners

123 Listeners

289 Listeners

93 Listeners

140 Listeners

501 Listeners

208 Listeners

152 Listeners

134 Listeners

95 Listeners

35 Listeners

7 Listeners

48 Listeners