Monthly Archives: January 2016

Robert Allen’s spinning jenny is broken

Posted on 25 January, 2016 by John Styles

The late Eric Hobsbawm famously remarked ‘whoever says Industrial Revolution says cotton’. Traditional accounts of the British Industrial Revolution tell the story of an Asian textile – cotton – transformed into a cheap, mass-produced British staple by means of cost-cutting … Continue reading →

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