The poor potter who invented modern advertising – BBC

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Historian Jeremy Black unravels the advent of modern advertising by Josiah Wedgwood, a genius potter during the Industrial Revolution in Britain.

Watch the reel on BBC and the full documentary on BBC Select.

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