Industrialisation & Industrial History

We think of the Stephensons and Brunel as the fathers of the railways, and their Liverpool and Manchester and Great Western Railways as the prototy...

Almost everything you know about airships is wrong. Between 1917 and 1935, the US Navy poured tens of millions of dollars into their airship progra...

This important resource provides readers with many new ways to explore the emergence of modern America in the years of 1868 to 1918. The text provi...

Synthesizing a wealth of primary and secondary sources, Conflict and Carnage in Yucatán offers a fresh study of Yucatáns complex and vio­lent histo...

This book reveals what is happening in small communities across the United States as their newspapers struggle to survive. It is a celebration n...

From 1828 until the late 1860s, the Upper Missouri Outfit of the American Fur Company controlled the fur trade on the upper Missouri River from hea...

Once the beehive coke oven was perfected in Fayette County, Pennsylvania, the coal and coke industry began to flourish and supply other fledglin...

Bradford is rightly proud of its industrial heritage. This West Yorkshire city rose to prominence during the nineteenth century as an international...

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...

Before the emergence of the steam railway rocketed the likes of Isambard Kingdom Brunel and Robert Stephenson the great Victorian engineers into ...

The British & Colonial Aeroplane Company was established in 1910 at Filton on a site that is now an Airbus design and engineering centre. BAE S...

Bricks are all around us, yet we seldom stop to look at them. There is an almost infinite range of bricks and, likewise, brick colours. Years ago e...

Though often seen as the smaller twin of Manchester, Salford its neighbour across the River Irwell boasts a rich industrial heritage. Cotton and ...

Founded in 1957, the Southern California suburb prophetically named City of Industry today represents, in the words of Victor Valle, The gritty cro...

The Lake District mountains are full of mineral veins. Many have been discovered and worked over the past 1,000 years. Many still remain to be disc...

This remarkable book looks at hundreds of autobiographies penned between 1760 and 1900 to offer an intimate firsthand account of how the Industrial...

Built at Doncaster works in 1923 the Nigel Gresley designed then-A1 class Pacific (4-6-2) first entered service as No 1472. The new locomotive did ...

Joseph Brown, founder of Brown & Sharpe, was a skilled clockmaker who invented new machines, and new ways to make things. Samuel Darling, an...

New Lanark, the former cotton spinning village, is internationally renowned for pioneering technology and social change in the Industrial Revolutio...

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

L.T.C. Rolts fame was born from his unique ability to produce works of literature from subject matter seemingly ill suited to such treatment engin...

When school pupils Capel Cochineal and Stanley Sheep are asked by their teachers to produce a history project about their area, they soon realise t...

L.T.C. Rolts fame was born from his unique ability to produce works of literature from subject matter seemingly ill suited to such treatment engin...

London has always been a bustling place of trade; once the docks teemed with men, ships and goods from all over the world. Now all has been transfo...

From muddy creek to naval-industrial powerhouse; from constructing wooden walls to building Dreadnoughts; from maintaining King Johns galleys to se...

The story of the ill-fated liner Titanic is one that has been told and retold countless times it is hard to imagine that there could be any new st...

Harland and Wolff, once acknowledged as the greatest and best-known shipbuilding company in the world, for many years enjoyed a mighty eminence bef...

The age of steam is past, the heyday of Swindon Works is long gone but the legend lives on. What made the Great Western Railways Swindon Works ico...

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 book is a study of workers activism and labour unions in the eight years between the recognition of Indonesian sovereignty by the Netherlands ...

Maritime historian Mike Smylie takes the reader on a wonderfully comprehensive journey through the history of fishing in and around Morecambe Bay i...

Lavishly illustrated with unique images from the official company archive, this book charts more than 100 years of car-making at the Longbridge fac...

In the first half of the twentieth century, and in the years following the Second World War, Leamington and Warwick flourished as industrial centre...

Mining disasters attracted the attention of the public and the press during the twentieth century, just as they had done a few generations earlier....

In 1963 Dr Beechings infamous report signalled the end for over 15,000 miles of track, a third of Britains stations, and for 70,000 jobs, as well a...

The Industrial Revolution was a period of exceptional change in Britain, not only in terms of technology but also in law and order. The countrys so...

Did you know that apart from Lancashire, the greatest concentration of Boulton & Watt steam engines was in London, demonstrating the enormous a...