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SCOUT· 23%12m·2026-05-26·HistoryExcerpt: Myth of the Month 26: The Industrial Revolution -- pt. 2: Spinning the National Yarn
Historiansplaining: A historian tells you why everything you know is wrong
For patrons only for 1 year: We trace how the notion of the “industrial revolution” – originally a foreign, Continental idea rooted in German dialectical history – entered into British political discourse and then into sacred national mythology, enshrined by the tourism industry and by Thatcherite politics. Then we…
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