Britain's Economy: How We Got Here
Dan Snow's History Hit
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Does It Matter to Live in a Big Economy?
Britain has always been a regionally unbalanced country. The biggest economic decline in the last 200 years of any region isn't the deindustrialization of the north. It's the collapse of agriculture in east anglia in the late nineteenth century. Once we start importing american grain, east Anglia goes from being this incredibly prosperous place to a relatively poor place. We can talk about world beating financial services industries london and the southeast or we can talk about the much more soggy picture you get once you get into the north,. Or bits of scotland or bits of wales.
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