Industrialisation & Industrial History

Anyone interested in the real London needs to read this. - Andrew MarrNo city can survive without water, and lots of it. Today we take the stuff fo...

English schoolchildren are taught that Sir Richard Arkwright invented the water-frame and was the father of the Industrial Revolution and the fact...

When Willard M. Kiplinger launched the groundbreaking The Kiplinger Washington Letter in 1923, he left the sidelines of traditional journalism to s...

Collecting texts taken from letters, diaries, literature, scientific journals and reports, Pandæmonium gathers a beguiling narrative as it traces t...

In Draining New Orleans, the first full-length book devoted to the world's toughest drainage problem, renowned geographer Richard Campanella recoun...

In the decades following World War II, factories in many countries not only provided secure employment and a range of economic entitlements, but al...

This is the definitive story of the men who built the railways the unknown Victorian labourers who blasted, tunnelled, drank and brawled their way...

The Slate Islands lie off the west coast of Argyll. Slate has been taken from these shores from their earliest recorded history and the richness an...

From Britain's most popular railway historian, a concise, authoritative and fast-paced telling of how the railways changed the world. The arrival ...

Sold as a multi-volume set the individual volumes are also available for purchase. This is the third volume on the history of the Transport and Ge...

From Ice Age to Wetlands the Lea Valleys Return to Nature was inspired by the imaginative community-focused project known as Walthamstow Wetlands....

After the Second World War, the drive for the modernisation of Britains railways ushered in a new breed of locomotive: the Diesel. Diesel-powered t...

The rapid emergence of China and India as prime locations for low-cost manufacturing has led some analysts to conclude that manufacturers in the o...

Covering the period from 1948 to 1996, The Times End of the Line chronologically traces the history of more than 400 long forgotten railway lines, ...

The history of an entrepreneurial family whose work influenced followers of the Arts and Crafts Movement, Gothic Revivalism, Art Needlework and Aes...

Located in the heart of England's Lake District, the placid waters of Thirlmere seem to be the embodiment of pastoral beauty. But under their calm ...

A facsimile edition of Bradshaw's wonderfully illustrated guide to Victorian London, dating from 1862. Bradshaws guide to London was published in...

Have you ever watched wagon after wagon of a goods train thunder past and wondered where it is heading, what it is carrying, and how it works its w...

In recent decades digital devices have reshaped daily life, while tech companies' stock prices have thrust them to the forefront of the business wo...

The more we know about the catastrophic implications of climate change, the more fossil fuels we burn. How did we end up in this mess?In this maste...

In popular retellings of American history, capitalism generally doesn't feature much as part of the founding or development of the nation. Instead,...

A sweeping study of how capitalism first promoted fossil fuels with the rise of steam power - and contributed to the worsening climate crisisThe mo...

In 1530 England was a backward economy, yet by 1780 she possessed a world empire and was just about to become the first industrialized power in th...

In this ode to Connecticuts Naugatuck River Valley, vibrant photos and moving poetry relate the regions legendary industrial history and ponder its...

The story of herring is entwined in the history of commercial fishing. For over two millennia, herring have been commercially caught and its import...

Granite is the most unyielding of building materials. The great granite quarries of the North East are silent now, as are virtually all of the 100 ...