Cromford Conversational Cromford Mills

Our 4th academic speaker is Susanne Seymore. In this final podcast before our event, Joan Link shares her insights regarding Sussanes work and its relevance to Cromford and The Arkwright Society.

Susanne Seymour, Deputy Director of the Institute for the Study of Slavery at Nottingham University, will talk about her large project on the raw cotton sources for the Strutt Mills in Belper. The Strutts were the lead supplier of cotton thread in the UK in the late 18th/19th centuries. Their cotton was mostly supplied by Thomas Tarleton, who was himself directly involved in the Transatlantic Slave Trade.

(Update 8th Nov - Conference Programme was available to all ticket holders. Here is a version with the session links reacted)
https://bit.ly/asirc20-programmeB

Tickets available from https://bit.ly/asirc20-tickets

Standard Ticket: £20 for full access to the conference.

Premium Ticket: £30, includes access to the full conference, plus a copy of the book of papers from the 2019 Industrial Revolution Conference, ‘Industry and British People: Cromford, the Derwent Valley and Beyond.’ The book includes contributions from last year’s speakers and is edited by Chris Wrigley.

About Cromford Mills

Built-in 1771 to house the first water-powered cotton spinning mill, the site became the birthplace of the modern factory system. Cromford Mills is internationally recognised as part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site, due to the ground-breaking ingenuity that was quickly replicated in mills across the world, transforming the global textile industry.

About the Arkwright Society

The Arkwright Society owns and manages Cromford Mills. It is an educational charity devoted to the rescue of industrial heritage buildings and helping to preserve the precious built and natural landscape in and around Cromford.

Show NOTES

(Update 8th Nov - Conference Programme was available to all ticket holders. Here is a version with the session links reacted)
https://bit.ly/asirc20-programmeB

Joan Link introduces us to our oversea,  featured speaker Thales Pereira leading up to the 7th November Hidden Histories of the Industrial Revolution: Enslaved People and Women's Conference.

Thales will tell us how Brazilian cotton trade with Britain was important to both countries at the beginning of the British Industrial Revolution. He will talk about the use of enslaved peoples in the production of Brazilian cotton, and the effect of  mid-C19 lower profitability in the cotton trade on who worked in the cotton fields. Cotton was the main trade between Brazil and Britain from the 1780s until the end of C19  – raw cotton being exported to Liverpool, but British cotton textile becoming Brazil’s main import product. Some of Thales’ research draws on contemporary Customs and Merchants data in Liverpool records.

Tickets available from https://bit.ly/asirc20-tickets

Standard Ticket: £20 for full access to the conference.

Premium Ticket: £30, includes access to the full conference, plus a copy of the book of papers from the 2019 Industrial Revolution Conference, ‘Industry and British People: Cromford, the Derwent Valley and Beyond.’ The book includes contributions from last year’s speakers and is edited by Chris Wrigley.

About Cromford Mills

Built-in 1771 to house the first water-powered cotton spinning mill, the site became the birthplace of the modern factory system. Cromford Mills is internationally recognised as part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site, due to the ground-breaking ingenuity that was quickly replicated in mills across the world, transforming the global textile industry.

About the Arkwright Society

The Arkwright Society owns and manages Cromford Mills. It is an educational charity devoted to the rescue of industrial heritage buildings and helping to preserve the precious built and natural landscape in and around Cromford.

Show NOTES

(Update 8th Nov - Conference Programme was available to all ticket holders. Here is a version with the session links reacted)
https://bit.ly/asirc20-programmeB

Joan Link introduces us to our second speaker Emma Griffin leading up to the 7th November Hidden Histories of the Industrial Revolution: Enslaved People and Women's Conference. 

Professor Emma Griffin, University of East Anglia, the second keynote speaker, has extensively researched workers in the Industrial Revolution through their journals, diaries and letters, and will discuss Victorian women workers after men ‘stole’ their work spinning in the mills.

Tickets available from https://bit.ly/asirc20-tickets

Standard Ticket: £20 for full access to the conference.

Premium Ticket: £30, includes access to the full conference, plus a copy of the book of papers from the 2019 Industrial Revolution Conference, ‘Industry and British People: Cromford, the Derwent Valley and Beyond.’ The book includes contributions from last year’s speakers and is edited by Chris Wrigley.

About Cromford Mills

Built-in 1771 to house the first water-powered cotton spinning mill, the site became the birthplace of the modern factory system. Cromford Mills is internationally recognised as part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site, due to the ground-breaking ingenuity that was quickly replicated in mills across the world, transforming the global textile industry.

About the Arkwright Society

The Arkwright Society owns and manages Cromford Mills. It is an educational charity devoted to the rescue of industrial heritage buildings and helping to preserve the precious built and natural landscape in and around Cromford.

(Update 8th Nov - Conference Programme was available to all ticket holders. Here is a version with the session links reacted)
https://bit.ly/asirc20-programmeB

Episode 1

Arkwright Society Conference coordinator Joan Link explains a little about the event and shares with us the first speaker Professor Maxine Berg.

SHOW NOTES

Professor Berg’s talk will consider the role of slavery from the early monopoly (1672-1698) of the Royal African Company, in which Edward Colston was a director.

She will look at the effects of this earlier period on the dramatic rise in enslavement throughout C18. She will reflect on the financial and commercial underpinnings that this period provided for the British Industrial Revolution, and on Eric Williams’ 1940s analysis that linked the growth of capitalism in C18th Britain to slavery and the slave trade, and the ‘ triangular trade’ between Britain, Africa and the Caribbean.

She will raise the questions for a new generation to return to the contributions to British industrialisation of enslaved peoples and slave-based economies, especially of the Caribbean sugar plantations.

EVENT: Hidden Histories of the Industrial Revolution: Enslaved People and Women

The Arkwright Society joins the Zoom revolution with its first virtual Industrial Revolution Conference on Saturday 7th November. 

VENUE: Zoom

TICKETS - bit.ly/asirc20-tickets

PRICES - Standard £20 Premium £30 (INCLUDES A COPY OF THE BOOK OF PAPERS FROM THE 2019 INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION CONFERENCE)



Background

The Industrial Revolution Conference has been running for six years with a diverse range of topics and expert speakers.

This year, leading experts on the Industrial Revolution will set out their views about the time when Britain changed in every way. They will talk about the partly ‘hidden histories’ in this context of enslaved peoples and women. 



In this episode

Our first keynote speaker, Professor Maxine Berg of Warwick University will look at Slavery and the Wealth of Nations by going back to the Royal African Company in the late 1600s when Edward Colston was a Director. The use of enslaved peoples on the sugar plantations of the West Indies paved the way for the later work of enslaved peoples in the revolution of cotton production.



About Cromford Mills

Built-in 1771 to house the first water-powered cotton spinning mill, the site became the birthplace of the modern factory system. Cromford Mills is internationally recognised as part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site, due to the ground-breaking ingenuity that was quickly replicated in mills across the world, transforming the global textile industry.

About the Arkwright Society

The Arkwright Society owns and manages Cromford Mills. It is an educational charity devoted to the rescue of industrial heritage buildings and helping to preserve the precious built and natural landscape in and around Cromford.

We have a limited number of places available for journalists who would like to cover the conference, please email Tricia Trice ttrice@arkwrightsociety.org.uk