Theo Barker
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Commentators have tended to play down the importance of London as a business and industrial centre since 1500, argues Theo Barker, and in the process have distorted the saga of Britain’s economic rise and fall. Published February 11 2008
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Theo Barker on how 150 years of innovations in global movement have transformed what we eat, think and wear Published November 1 1996
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Published August 31 1995
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Theo Barker reviews two books on British industry. Published June 30 1995
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Theo Barker looks at how Britain innovated and kept ahead of her international competitors before the Great War.
Published May 31 1994
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Three new books on Britain and her Empire
Published January 1 1994
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Theo Barker takes stock on an edited collection of local history
Published May 31 1981
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