London, Industry and Globalization at the Turn of the 20th Century
Channel: Jim Clifford
Date: 16/09/2020

Guest lecture for HIST 224 at the University of Saskatchewan for the fall of 2020. The lecture focuses on London as the first city that reached a population of 5 million and then explores the links between the industrial economy and the global supply chains for raw materials. You can read more about John Knight and Sons soap factory and the global tallow supply in this article I've published with Environment and History: https://hcommons.org/deposits/item/hc:24957/

Here are the maps I used to find all the factories in London in 1895. https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=11&lat=51.49072&lon=-0.13305&layers=163&b=1 

Here is a visualization of all the factories we found: https://spatialsk.maps.arcgis.com/apps/StorytellingSwipe/index.html?appid=a366ebdc607b4c8fa77f8242d7d4760d

More on Gutta Percha from John Tully, "A Victorian Ecological Disaster: Imperialism, the Telegraph and Gutta-Percha": https://muse.jhu.edu/article/367792/pdf?casa_token=kFGCy9FqZbAAAAAA:eC4VHlj7l54Exgvj7L74CqB5HqN4GRQx84JSkLFhNLOkwZT8q6SGI3nEvUMHsJMLHP5gQC7lJg