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The Past at Work

1980 Documentary 1 season

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The birth and development of the Industrial Revolution is explored by visiting factories, mines, and other industrial relics where the modern world was made -- not by statesmen and philosophers, but by men, women and children with dirt on their hands.

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  • Anthony BurtonSelf - Presenter
Network
BBC Two
First aired
Mar 25, 1980
Latest episode
May 13, 1980

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