How to think about History?

Welcome to our ECONOMIC HISTORY course! Your go-to ECONOMIC HISTORY guide, brought to you by the IEA and kindly supported by The Monnery Trust.

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ECONOMIC HISTORY is your go-to guide for exam revision, learning something new or just scrubbing up on past topics. Dr Steve Davies, Head of Education at the Institute of Economic Affairs, will take you through many of the fundamental topics of ECONOMIC HISTORY in 12 EASY TO FOLLOW, SHORT videos. So, if all of your classes are now online - CHECK US OUT! This is video 4 of 12 in our ECONOMICS HISTORY series.

01:36 - American Declaration of Independence
01:40 - Storming of the Bastille
01:48 - Russian Revolution
02:20 - Hitler's rise to power
02:33 - Battle of Waterloo
02:38 - Sealing of Magna Carta
02:47 - Battle of Sekigahara
03:04 - UK joins The Great War/ WW1
05:13 - Newton's Principia
05:34 - Wealth of Nations
05:46 - Origin of Species
06:00 - Crick and Watson: DNA
06:10 - Robert Koch: Tuberculosis
06:26 - Louis Pasteur
06:52 - First Flight of Jumbo Jet
06:57 - First Voyage of Container Ship
07:01 - First Trans-Atlantic Radio
07:09 - First Trans-Atlantic Telegraph
07:20 - Creation of Electric Lightbulb
07:35 - First Model T Ford
07:44 - First Condom / First Contraceptive Pill
08:01 - Flight of Spaceship 1
11:05 - Conclusion

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[thishominid]

This is why I enjoy documentaries on the history of inventions and technology more that traditional history documentaries. There isn't much change when it comes to small groups talking people into killing one another. There is change when it comes to how humans have dealt with such things as clothing themselves and obtaining shelter.

[alexgibson]

Crick and Watson announced their discovery in the Eagle pub in Cambridge.

[timothyhallett]

The reality is that the two approaches are closely linked. Technology and invention, as with science and Arts, cannot grow and flourish without a political environment which allows, or even encourages it. Also, war, engineering and medical progress are similarly interlinked. Reconstructive or ‘plastic’ surgery would never have thrived without the pioneering work done to treat the horrendous wounds inflicted on combatants in the two World Wars. Penicillin would never have been mass produced without the backing of UK and US governments in the Second WorldWar, who saw the advantage in having injured or sick troops returned to fighting fitness more rapidly than the enemy could achieve. Even the condom and contraceptive pill have political links. Authoritarian regimes, especially those which have racist theories and expansionist goals, have tried to limit or ban contraception. For example, the Nazis banned contraception for certain ages groups of women, depending on marital status - the Nazis didn’t want anything to limit the creation of future soldiers! All that said, this was fun to watch, even (or especially) for someone who has taught and lectured on History for 25 years. 👍