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Today in 1914, the people of Manchester turned a time-honored New England tradition on its head. Rather than celebrating Old Home Days – an annual event held in communities across New Englan…| Today in Connecticut History
Wolfgang Messner explores the risks that mediocrity and conformity will accompany an AI-powered cognitive revolution. By Wolfgang Messner The Conversation Artificial Intelligence began as a quest to simulate the human brain. Is it now in the process of transforming the human brain| Consortium News
How did railroads started in France from 1815 to 1848?| searchinginhistory.blogspot.com
A towering figure that held no crown, nor office nor led armies, yet his handling of wealth brought him influence and contributed in changing the landscape of France in the 19th century. He inspired both admiration and a conspiracy of “space lasers.” Here are 10 things to know about James Mayer de Rothschild.| Searching in History
In 1836, then Spanish Prime Minister Juan Alvarez Mendizabal unleashed his decree that targeted the privatization of lands owned by religious orders with the aim of winning the ongoing Carlist War and improving agricultural production as well as overall economic situation.| Searching in History
How impactful was the Mendizabal Reform?| searchinginhistory.blogspot.com
PIGS - a convenient and sarcastic abbreviation for Portugal, Italy, Greece and Spain, EU’s top economic troublemakers in the early 2000s. Surprisingly, most of these countries also entered industrialization late. While the burgeoning Germany’s industrial output surpassed Great Britain’s by the start of the 1900s. Spain in particular remained reliant on agriculture and ore exports. What did Spain experience during the tumultuous Industrial Revolution of the 1800s?| Searching in History
Thomas Newcomen (1663 - 1729) introduced to the world his invention at work in 1712 in Dudley Castle. His invention inspired others to develop it further allowing man to muster power bigger industries dawning the industrial revolution. But who was this fellow? Here are 5 things to know about Thomas Newcomen:| Searching in History
The Baptist preacher and iron monger Thomas Newcomen and his partner John Calley held their breath as they watched and waited for the beam of their new strange device to swing up and down. Newcomen betted 10 years of their lives, hardwork and experimentation on this device. Its result dictated not only if this bet paid off but also the fate of England’s mining industry and even beyond.| Searching in History
How did Catalonia developed from a warn-torn region to a beacon of development in the 18th century Spain?| searchinginhistory.blogspot.com
Much of the fabric of Birmingham’s history is, like the city’s modest river, the oft-culverted Rea, half-hidden or tucked away from sight. Occulted beneath flyovers and underpasses, the city’s past flows sluggishly beneath redundant factories and car parks. Unconvincingly disguised, and with the vaguest hint of rusting metal, it escapes as vapour from drains and … Continue reading "Ghost Factory"| East of Elveden
Who is Joseph Marie Jacquard?| searchinginhistory.blogspot.com
The factory system is an approach to manufacturing that arose during the Industrial Revolution to replace more inefficient forms of production| The Economic Historian
Many “global historians” argue that the British cotton industry was the product of (unintentional) infant industry protection from Indian competition in the 18th century. The various Ca…| pseudoerasmus
Some caveats and reservations about the Napoleonic blockade paper on the infant industry argument that’s making waves. My caveat: protection persisted for decades after the blockade and may h…| pseudoerasmus
British Tariff Protection after 1774: Competition, Innovation, & Misallocation, plus a note on Weaving This is an addendum to a post about the Calico Acts, which had prohibited within Britain t…| pseudoerasmus
{ This post is mostly stringing together my scattered tweets over the past couple of weeks. I’ve had numerous discussions on this subject with Vincent Geloso, Judy Stephenson, Ben Schneider, …| pseudoerasmus
Historian Sven Beckert’s widely acclaimed book, Empire of Cotton: A New History of Global Capitalism, is a good agrarian, business, and labour history of a single commodity. But as economic h…| pseudoerasmus
In The History Manifesto, historians Jo Guldi, the Hans Rothfels Assistant Professor of History at Brown, and David Armitage, the Lloyd C. Blankfein Professor of History and Chair of the History De…| pseudoerasmus
Discover the story of these northern English boxing clubs rooted in working-class community life.| The Historic England Blog
Some months ago, Pseudoerasmus posted The 25 most stimulating economic history books since 2000 – not a “best” list, exactly, but a list premised on “best” = “makes you think”. My original, absurd…| winter tomato