By Chris Dorrell The industrial revolution was an utterly transformative moment in British history, reshaping not just the domestic economy but eventually the world’s. Think railways, factories and mills, the rapid intrusion of ‘dark Satanic mills‘ on England’s previously ‘green and pleasant lands’. But new research from the University of Cambridge suggests this traditional interpretation needs to be drastically revised. “A hundred years has been spent studying the Industrial Revolution based on a misconception of what it entailed,” said Leigh Shaw-Taylor, project leader and Professor of Econo…