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SUMMARY:Is the Revisionist View of the Industrial Revolution up for Revisi
 on? - Sebastian Keibek\, MPhil student\, Centre for History and Economics\
 , Cambridge
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CONTACT:Dr Sally K Church
DESCRIPTION:Yesterday's revision is today's accepted wisdom and so the rev
 isionist view of the English Industrial Revolution has\, over the past dec
 ades\, become fairly established. The 1760-1830 period is no longer seen a
 s one of fast and widespread economic change\, but as one in which growth 
 and technological innovation was limited to certain\, rather small section
  of the national economy. Overall productivity and economic growth was slo
 w. New research on Britain's historical occupational structure by the Camb
 ridge Group is questioning this perceived wisdom.
LOCATION:Combination Room\, Wolfson College
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