209 Boring Administrative History; Industry Artwork

Hanging with History

The first season focuses on the origins of the Industrial Revolution or the Great Enrichment, we go deep into history to gain enough background knowledge to actually understand the various theories of the origins of the Great Enrichment. Eventually we learn that we also need to know how the miracle was consolidated, as the many other close approaches to the Industrial Revolution failed.A kwirky style, but intellectually ambitious with the goal of understanding history well enough to understand the miracle that happened that one time. It's gonna be a long series.

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Hanging with History

209 Boring Administrative History; Industry

April 08, 2026 • Harald Hansen • Season 1 • Episode 209

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“The removal of soil, earth or rubbish, the conveyance of stones, sand or lime, everything is done by little four wheel carts drawn by a single horse on iron railways.. the advantage they represent is immense. England owes to them part of her wealth. Never without THEM could coal, iron ore, lime stone, slate and other raw materials have been conveyed such distances and nevertheless at a very trifling cost.”

We spend most of our time on the defense industries. What is revealed is that across a large number of domains the British are world leaders or nearly so.

So much so, that one would not expect this to be possible. There must be an unknown variable explaining the phenomena of British superiority.