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3005 BCE

Past → now. Now is 2026, the corpus’s latest recorded state · 1145 objects · 280 located (1 withheld) · 865 unlocated

Now · 2026

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Raw cotton

The fibre that industrialised first, and the one detail of the story that cannot be told inside Britain.

No recorded place · imports rising sharply from the 1780s

Connections

transported to Liverpool — Raw cotton was landed at Liverpool and carried inland to the Lancashire spinning towns, first by river and canal and after 1830 by rail.
is depends on of The British textile industry — Not one pound of the fibre was grown in Britain; the whole sector ran on imports, latterly from the slave plantations of the United States South.

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865 objects have no place. See why, and how they relate instead — a coordinate they do not have would be a claim, not a kindness. The count is corpus-wide; no lens or window changes it.One more object is located but its mark is withheld: the coordinate is declared, not yet verified, and an unverified pin reads as a fact.

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point: — A surveyed position. The mark is where the thing is.
soft: — A curatorial choice within a larger extent. The mark is near, not at.

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1145 objects · 37 Knowledge Journeys · 852 recorded dated events (3005 BCE–2026), 51 imprecisely dated, and 16 declared future targets (a target never moves Now) · 280 located (1 of them withheld pending verification), 865 unlocated

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Raw cotton

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