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Podcast: Engineering Matters
Episode: #190 Regional Re-balancing
Description: For 200 years, towns and cities across the British regions developed specialised roles in the economy of empire. Mining towns and ports, potteries and steelmakers all made their own contribution to a global trade network, and local communities enjoyed jobs for life, with clear paths to entry.
With the changing global order of the late 20th century, and a new approach to trade, many of these communities faced new competition from other countries. Specialised industries declined, and often collapsed, leaving a hole in the hearts of these communities, and a lack of local career options. Highly trained local...