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‘Nation of makers’: Britain industrialised over a century earlier than history books claim

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Millions of historical employment records show the British workforce turned sharply towards manufacturing jobs during the 1600s – suggesting the birth of the industrial age has much deeper roots.

Millions of historical employment records show the British workforce turned sharply towards manufacturing jobs during the 1600s – suggesting the birth of the industrial age has much deeper roots. Britain was well on its way to an industrialised economy under the reign of the Stuarts in the 17 th century – over 100 years before textbooks mark the start of the Industrial Revolution – according to the most detailed occupational history of a nation ever created. Built from more than 160 million records and spanning over three centuries, the University of Cambridge’s Economies Past website uses cen

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