TIL using 160 million records, Cambridge researchers found that while much of Europe remained agricultural, British male agricultural workers fell from 64% to 42% between 1600-1740 while in goods production they increased from 28 to 42%. They date the industrial revolution as beginning in the 1600s.

https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/nation-of-makers-industrial-britain
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