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Jarmo Peltola currently works at the School of Social Sciences and Humanities, Tampere University. Jarmo does research in History of Society/Economic and Social History. He writes a history of Finlayson Cotton Mill 1820-2020. He also runs a Historical database project HoPES
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Finland urbanised and industrialised slowly. In 1820 Tampere was a tiny inland town in the Autonomous Grand Duchy of Finland, with fewer than 1,000 inhabitants. Although Finland was a latecomer to industrialisation, Tampere took the path of many other small towns in Europe. It grew around a relatively fast-growing cotton mill with the help of forei...