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...attention away from the progress of craft industries for many years beforehand. Eighteenth-century writers such as Joshua Gee, Adam Smith, and Adam Anderson recognised the earlier rise of manufactures (see A Gradual Revolution?). So how did such perceptions come to be marginalised? [Thomas Percival] Thomas Percival First sightings The first intimations of a new account of...

...attention, and held it. They would always have written, I believe, but thank goodness they eventually published – despite being women, despite not having money, despite living elsewhere than the south of the country – too! Take part in our Quiz: Which Brontë ​sister wrote it Explore the OU/BBC drama on the Brontë sisters, To Walk Invisible. Read Prof. Sara’s...