Industrial Archaeology

In the long and absorbing history of Britain's railways and the men and women who have worked on them, the most challenging years were those of the...

Although goods traffic accounted in many cases for a higher proportion of railway companies revenue than passengers, the buildings associated with ...

This book is a reissue of the travelogue of Adriaan van Berkel, first published in 1695 by Johan ten Hoorn in Amsterdam. The first part deals with ...

Kommos, located on the south coast of Crete, is widely known for its important sanctuary of the Greek period for its earlier role as a major Minoan...

The area of Kings Cross has witnessed a dramatic transformation, with a new city rising above, alongside and within some of the countrys most compe...

Throughout world history, copper has been a significant metal for a vast number of cultures, from the oldest civilisations on record to the Bronze ...

For centuries lime was an essential ingredient in many aspects of life and work - such as farming, building and manufacturing - and the kilns in wh...

This atlas is the definitive account in maps and words of the historic royal towns of Windsor and Eton. There has never been an account of the hist...

As long as people have lived along Rhode Island's meandering coast, the ocean has provided them with a ready supply of food. Whether Native America...

In the middle of the seventeenth century, judges in the short-lived New Haven Colony presided over a remarkable series of trials ranging from murde...

The drastic railway closures of the 1960s led to the slow decay and re-purposing of hundreds of miles of railway infrastructure. Though these build...