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[Hide] (107.7KB, 700x1024) Reverse In the early 1800s, cotton, wool, linen and silk products were 60% of Great Britain's exports
In the early 1900s pre WW1, exports increased ~12x from 40 million to 475 million pounds in value.
Textile goods, despite growing in amount, proportionally were only 33% of exports.
Steel manufacture, machinery and ships were now ~20% of exports
Unmanufactured coal had become ~9% of all exports