Industrialisation & Industrial History

Factories, with their ingenious machinery and miraculous productivity, are celebrated as modern wonders of the world. Yet from William Blakes dark ...

In 1909 Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, on his way back to South Africa from London, wrote his now celebrated tract Hind Swaraj, laying out his vision ...

Isambard Kingdom Brunel was Britain's greatest engineer, he was the man who built everything on a huge scale, he built Britain's biggest ship, some...

The history of the iron ore trade on the Great Lakes, from 1900 to 1980, is perhaps best related in visual form. Historians and enthusiasts alike c...

Located in the heart of Londons East End, the Thames Ironworks might be described as characteristic of the industrial and social landscape of the V...

During the second half of the nineteenth century, Barrow-in-Furness became a pioneer in iron and steel production. It went on to grow astronomicall...

We live our lives immersed in name brand products. It's hard to drive down the street without seeing a plethora of chain restaurants, car dealershi...

The Ironbridge Gorge, a cradle of the Industrial Revolution, in the late 18th century was a magnet for writers, artists and industrial spies. The l...

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...

Sunderland was once one of Britains industrial giants. Famous for its shipyards, mines and glass-making, it thrived at a time when its country need...

Women have won their political independence. Now is the time for them to achieve their economic freedom too.This was the great rallying cry of the ...

In 1977, the iconic Swindon Works was building locomotives. By 1986, it was shut down. In The End of the Line, Ron Bateman recounts the fight to sa...

The richly varied lives of the Martin brothers reflected the many upheavals of Britain in the age of Industrial Revolution. Low-born and largely un...

Cycling advocates envisage a future in which bikes are a widespread daily form of transportation. While many global cities are seeing the number of...

Born just as the British Empire was taking its last breaths, Martin Adeney was part of the 'twilight generation' caught between the imperial and po...

Cycling advocates envisage a future in which bikes are a widespread daily form of transportation. While many global cities are seeing the number of...

Britain was the cradle of the industrial revolution. Its manufacturing prowess sustained a unique global standing in the nineteenth century, bore i...

The British fishing fleet industry was one of huge importance: it was estimated that in late 19th century there were 22,000 merchant ships in the c...

Lincolnshire today is a thriving agricultural county and home to one of the finest medieval cathedrals in the world, but not so long ago Lincolnshi...

In 1973 a group of North Wales building workers were arrested for picketing-related offences during the first and only national building workers st...

When the new town established in East Shropshire acquired the name Telford in 1968, sign boards set up on major roads entering the designated area ...

This book offers a comprehensive history of the Czechoslovak Ocean Shipping Company (C. O. S.) from its beginning in the late 1940s until the fall ...

Race, Labor, and Violence in the Delta examines the history of labor relations and racial conflict in the Mississippi Valley from the Civil War int...

ISAMBARD KINGDOM BRUNEL is famous for the engineering wonders he left behind - from the SS Great Britain to the delights of Paddington and Temple...

The extraordinary, unknown story of two giants of American historyHenry Ford and Thomas Edisonand their attempt to create an electric-powered city ...

The peoples of the British Isles gave to the world the foundations on which modern manufacturing economies are built. This is quite an assertion, b...

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

This is a fascinating combination of biographical material about the great Scottish engineer Thomas Telford (1757-1834), and a modern travelogue th...

This seminal book reveals how black labour was exploited in twentieth-century South Africa, the human costs of which are still largely hidden from ...

This review describes the rail-connected quarries of the UK-based Aggregates Industries group, trading as Bardon Aggregates, a company that started...

Race, Labor, and Violence in the Delta examines the history of labor relations and racial conflict in the Mississippi Valley from the Civil War int...

Robber Barons and Wretched Refuse explores the connection between the so-called robber barons who led American big businesses during the Gilded Age...

Discover how humans created their world from the objects they left behind - from the US Constitution to the first iPhone - in DK's latest history b...

Epsom is the home of the Derby, where racehorses from the training stables can be seen every morning riding out on the world-famous Downs. But it h...

2020 Book of the Year  International Labor History Association Honorable Mention Philip Taft Labor History Prize This rich history details the...

Workington has long been a producer of coal and steel. The huge Cumbrian iron ore field lies to the south of the town and with the local coalfield ...

St Andrews is famous the world over as being the home of golf but although golf clubs are still designed and manufactured here, theres a lot more t...

The market town of Petersfield lies on the edge of the beautiful South Downs, and it has much to thank its idyllic location for. From medieval orig...

The popular north Wales seaside resort of Llandudno has a surprisingly long and intriguing history that predates the development of the present tow...

In the 1960s, Tillamook County was at war with itself. As the regional dairy industry shifted from small local factories to larger consolidated fac...