Dark history of Derby's Silk Mill remembered

18 October 2012 Last updated at 17:36 ET Help

When John Lombe took over Derby's Silk Mill in the early 1700s he decided the only way to compete with Italy's high quality silks was to steal their technology - but he ended up being poisoned by an Italian spy.

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