Spinning Yarns: A History of the Cotton Industry - Series 1
Documentary charting the rise and fall of the Lancashire cotton industry. Presented by Paul Mason
Spinning Yarns: A History of the Cotton Industry - Series 1 - Episode 1
A History of the Cotton Industry: 1/4. Paul Mason visits Cromford Mill to discover how cotton heralded the industrial revolution and dominated British exports for over a century.
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Spinning Yarns: A History of the Cotton Industry - Series 1 - Episode 2
A History of the Cotton Industry: 2/4: Paul Mason examines how the trade changed the face of 19th-century British politics and its role in winning the vote for the masses.
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Spinning Yarns: A History of the Cotton Industry - Series 1 - Episode 3
A History of the Cotton Industry. 3/4: Paul Mason sets out to demolish the myth that life in the Lancashire cotton towns was all flat caps and rickets.
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Spinning Yarns: A History of the Cotton Industry - Series 1 - Episode 4
A History of the Cotton Industry. 4/4: Paul Mason describes how the decline of the cotton industry shaped Lancashire as dramatically as its birth, leaving a lasting legacy.
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