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URL:https://www.cumberland-geol-soc.org.uk/events/the-brigham-smelter-in-k
 eswick-is-this-the-most-important-historic-industrial-site-in-britain/
SUMMARY:The Brigham Smelter in Keswick - Is this the Most Important Histori
 c Industrial Site in Britain?
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Mark Hatton\, (Cumbria Amenity Trust Mining History So
 ciety)\n\n&nbsp\;\n\nZoom meeting. Opens 19:20\, 10 minutes before the sch
 eduled event start time\n\nIn the year that William Shakespeare was born\,
  men arrived in Keswick at the invitation of Queen Elizabeth I\, to establ
 ish a Copper Mining &amp\; Smelting operation. These men came from Germany
  in 1564 bringing technology far more advanced than had been seen in Engl
 and before. They were granted patents to protect their technology &amp\; 
 a monopoly to protect their business model. But the really radical thing w
 as how much capital they had at their disposal and how that capital had be
 en raised. Was this combination of technology\, legal protection &amp\; la
 rge scale private capital the birth of Modernity in the British Isles an
 d the beginning of the age of Capitalism ? This richly illustrated talk l
 ooks at the evidence and leaves the audience to draw their own conclusion.
LOCATION:https://us06web.zoom.us/j/81872756067?pwd=uKsnxwHpDleNijaKmD0XPW2L
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