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Episode: How Henry VIII accidentally started the Industrial Revolution, with Anton Howes
Description: Podcast: Works in Progress Podcast (LS 35 · TOP 3% what is this?)Episode: How Henry VIII accidentally started the Industrial Revolution, with Anton HowesPub date: 2025-07-29Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationHistorian Anton Howes discusses how Henry VIII turned Britain into an economic backwater – making it the unlikeliest place for the Industrial Revolution to happen. But, he explains it only took a small cabal of people who understood the problems of the time to turn the fate of the country (and thus, the world) aroun...