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This book is about technology and how it has changed the lives of people on three continents over the last three hundred years. The development of ...

Crafted in Britain is a celebration of Britains traditional crafts and industries that have survived into the modern world, not as museums but on t...

Samuel Smiles published Lives of the Engineers in 1862. The noted biographer presented his engineers as heroic progress makers who conquered nature...

On Christmas Eve 1801, Cornish mining engineer Richard Trevithick tested the first steam locomotive on the road. Though it was short-lived, explodi...

Transport systems are the lifeblood of all great cities and this is certainly true of London. As far back as Roman times, their city Londinium was ...

This book tells the often dramatic and always fascinating story of flight in lighter than air machines. For centuries man had dreamed of flying, bu...

This is the story of the men who built Britains canals and railways not the engineers and the administrators but the ones who provided the brawn a...

The First World War is famous for the unprecedented loss of life on a global scale; it was a conflict that affected the world forever. However, it ...

This fascinating book explores the development of locomotives over the course of fifty years. From Richard Trevithick''s first experimental road en...

Most historians recognise the work of three engineers as being the men who developed the railways from slow, lumbering colliery lines into fast, in...

This is the story of how for more than a hundred years steam power played a vital role in the development of road transport. It all began with tent...

Wedgwood was born in the Staffordshire Potteries in 1739 and lived in the area all his life. His family were all potters, working in traditional wa...

Thomas Telford's life was extraordinary: born in the Lowlands of Scotland, where his father worked as a shepherd, he ended his days as the most rev...

Anthony Burton has travelled from the Highlands of Scotland, to the south west of England in pursuit of his passion for the steam engine in all its...

This is the story of canals used for transport and the men who built them from the earliest times, up to the end of the ninteenth century. This is ...

Britain's Canals is a charming and insightful exploration into the amazing architecture and engineering wonders that surround Britains inland water...

Over a thousand years ago the Chinese discovered that the slender filaments that formed the cocoon of the silk moth, could be woven into beautiful ...

The 93-mile West Highland Way is indisputably Britain's most spectacular long-distance path. The first section, following the eastern shore of Loch...

This book tells the story of one of Britain's most successful heritage railway projects. Formed in 1960, The Great western Society was founded by a...

The British were at the forefront of railway development for the first fifty years of the nineteenth century. Railway Empire tells the story of how...

Mining is Britains oldest industry, and this book follows the men and, in the past, women who spent their lives working underground. Since the New ...

When a young English nobleman was thwarted in love he abandoned the court, retired to his estate near Manchester and built a canal to serve his coa...

This is the story of a thousand mile-long trip around England by canal. At times the journey took the author out into the beautiful countryside, an...

The official guide to this superb National Trail, published in conjunction with Walk Unlimited. Comprehensive, this is the only companion you need...

The steam engine provided power for almost every aspect of life in the West for over 200 years: for industry, transport, agriculture, and generatin...

Following the limestone escarpment on the Western edge of the Cotswolds, the 102 miles of the Cotswold Way take the walker through a quintessential...

The Ridgeway follows one of the oldest 'green roads' in Europe. It runs for 87 miles (140 km) from Overton Hill in the west, across the Marlborough...

Canal Builders is a classic history book for anyone interested in the development of Britain''s canal system. The book, which was first published i...

The eighteenth century saw the second Iron Age. Practically everything was made of iron: the machines of the Industrial Revolution; bridges and the...

For centuries, most textile manufacturing relied on people working in their own homes. All that changed in 1761 when Richard Arkwright began constr...