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On Mon, 05 Jun 2000, Vincent Campbell wrote:
>I saw the programme.
>
>I was particularly interested in two things, first the comment about the
>British midlands being called the Black country, and rituals and dress sense
>becoming heavily imbued with black in the late 18th and 19th century,
>because of the dark satanic mills, and the mass use of coke.
I found it particularly interesting that large scale iron founding took off
with the switch from coal to coke -- a move that could not possibly be put
down to resource depletion! Likewise the development of the cotton and china
industries. People began to realise that big bucks could be made by finding
more efficient ways to do things. Those who insist that cultural developments
have to be reactive rather than proactive will never get the big picture.
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