Registration from 9.30am, Introduction 10.15am
Cromford Mills
Cromford Mills,
Mill Lane
Cromford
Cromford
DE4 3RQ
Price: £45

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Cromford Mills
Cromford Mills Mill Lane
Cromford
Derbyshire
DE4 3RQ

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01629 823256

www.cromfordmills.org.uk

Arkwright Society Academic Conference: Industry and Society in the Industrial Revolution 28 September 2019

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Industry and Society in the Industrial Revolution
WHERE DID THE INVENTORS IN THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION AND LATER GET THEIR IDEAS FROM? HOW DID THEY INTERACT WITH ENLIGHTMENT VIEWS OF THE WORLD AND CHANGE ECONOMIC BEHAVIOUR AND GROWTH IN THE UK FOR EVER?

The 6th Arkwright Society Conference on the Industrial Revolution takes place on Saturday 28 September at the iconic Arkwright Mills in Cromford, Derbyshire.

Leading Academic experts on the Industrial Revolution, including Professors from Oxford and Derby Universities, will speak about the time when the whole world was looking to the United Kingdom, as it led in developing new machinery, new systems of work and new ways of living in society. We can still see the effect of these changes today, 250 years later.

At the heart of this time was a fever of intellectual and practically focussed thinking on science and technology, when scientists and academics worked with a new breed of business men, turning ideas into money and revitalising the UK economy. Derby, Derbyshire and the Midlands played a vital role in this transformative period.

Conference Topics include: The Derby Philosophers; Britain, the Industrial Revolution and Modern Economic Growth; the next wave of technological change in cotton spinning; Arkwright’s patents; the Cromford Canal, and Florence Nightingale in Derbyshire.

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