Making History

Holly Dayton

Are you curious about how academics can look at the same event, the same time period, the same moment and say different things? This podcast dives into why that happens! We walk through the big academic books on any given topic - the Industrial Revolution, Women's Suffrage, Decolonization - and look beyond the authors' arguments to their sources. What evidence do academics use, and how does their choice of evidence shape their arguments?

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The Industrial Revolution

Welcome, listeners, to the inaugural episode of "Making History!" This week we talk through historiography of the Industrial Revolution! The books we discuss are below: Authors 1: N.F.R. Crafts and C.K. Harley. Crafts, N. F. R. British Economic Growth During the Industrial Revolution. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1985. Harley, C. Knick. “British Industrialization Before 1841: Evidence of Slower Growth During the Industrial Revolution.” The Journal of economic history 42.2 (1982): 267–289.  Author 2: de Vries. de Vries, Jan. “The Industrial Revolution and the Industrious Revolution.” The Journal of economic history 54.2 (1994): 249–270. Author 3: Maxine Berg.  Berg, Maxine. The Age of Manufactures, 1700-1820 : Industry, Innovation, and Work in Britain. 2nd ed. London ; Routledge, 1994. Author 4: Joel Mokyr. Mokyr, Joel. The Enlightened Economy: an Economic History of Britain 1700-1850. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009. Author 5: Emma Griffin. Griffin, Emma. Liberty’s Dawn: a People’s History of the Industrial Revolution. New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, 2013.

May 11, 2022

28 min