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Least Village Has Its Blacksmith
In the next section of Chapter 3, Communities of Practice, Steward Brand writes about history's great stewards of maintenance: blacksmiths. Stewart writes:For millennia, it was the greatest show in town. The distant rhythmic clanging of metal on metal was an invitation to draw near. Up close, you sa
How Henry VIII accidentally started the Industrial Revolution, with Anton Howes
Historian 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
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