Pandaemonium 1660–1886: The Coming of the Machine as Seen by Contemporary Observers by Humphrey Jennings (PDF)

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Collecting texts taken from letters, diaries, literature, scientific journals and reports, Pandæmonium gathers a beguiling narrative as it traces the development of the machine age in Britain.Covering the years between 1660 and 1886, it offers a rich tapestry of human experience, from eyewitness reports of the Luddite Riots and the Peterloo Massacre to more intimate accounts of child labour, Utopian communities, the desecration of the natural world, ground-breaking scientific experiments, and the coming of the railways.Humphrey Jennings, co-founder of the Mass Observation movement of the 1930s and acclaimed documentary film-maker, assembled an enthralling narrative of this key period in Britain’s national consciousness. The result is a highly original artistic achievement in its own right.Thanks to the efforts of his daughter, Marie-Louise Jennings, Pandæmonium was originally published in 1985, and in 2012 it was the inspiration behind Danny Boyle’s electrifying Opening Ceremony for the London Olympic Games. Frank Cottrell Boyce, who wrote the scenario for the ceremony, contributes a revealing new foreword for this edition.

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⭐Amazing look via first person written accounts of the industrial revolution changes and how people at the time felt, good and bad. Not a fiction. A great resource for first person accounts. The only thing I basically ignored was the author’s narrative, trying to weave the real voices with a particular interpretation. I got the book because it was a great compilation of first person accounts 226 years that saw massive social and technological change.

⭐Under the radar treat.

⭐This is a review by proxy. Sam Altman, a very smart and widely read Silicon Valley investor and entrepreneur, called this his favorite book of the year.

⭐Read this book.We are living the consequences of the ideas that jump from the pages of Pandaemonium.These voices from the dawn of the Industrial Age in England percolate like wraiths through the Rust Belt, the Gulf Oil Spill, and all the for profit pseudo science poisoning our world today.We human beings can learn from the past.Read this book.

⭐While the title chosen reflects Milton’s Paradise Lost with its Fallen Angels, the real insight comes when we learn the book covers the Industrial Revolution observed by “Contemporary Observers” with some three hundred and seventy two “selections”. The visual element shines through. .The Author/Selector was a major figurer in film reporting. The reader will find a vast” Menu of Choice for either the “browser” or the intrepid “cover to cover “adventurer. The extracts by a plethora of writers from the breadth of Society combine to make this book a “must read”. Hugh Patrick-Smith

⭐Such interesting snippets. It’s the kind of book you’ll want to read in company, because you’ll feel compelled to share what you’re reading.

⭐It is excellent to obtain the near original version – which has so many more illustrations in it, compared to the post-Olympic version. Worth every penny to remind us.

⭐A terrific panorama of the emergence of industry and capitalism, as seen by those who witnessed it. Both exciting and appalling!

⭐The contemporary accounts collected here are in a variety of styles but they all share one common thread in that they are vivid, visceral pieces that really do put you “there”. My one criticism, slight though it is, is that rather like the industrial processes and landscapes described, the book does become a bit relentless and almost overpowering which for me, leads it to losing some of its narrative “grip”. For this reason I think this is a book best dipped into rather than read through in one go.

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