Industrialisation & Industrial History

The Useful Knowledge of William Hutton shows the rapid rise of a self-taught workman and the growing prominence of the city of Birmingham during th...

The city of Oxford has a long and prosperous history. First mentioned by name in the early tenth century as one of the burhs, or fortified places, ...

An illustrated history of Britains coal mines and the lives of the miners who worked in them. Coal heated the homes, fuelled the furnaces and powe...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE DUFF COOPER PRIZE 2018 'This is stupendous. The British nineteenth century, in all its complexity, all its horror, all its ener...

Through a combination of business acumen and technical innovation in the twentieth century, Danish shipping lines gradually expanded, gaining marke...

This book tells the story of Robert Walker Haulage. Established in 1935, Robert Walker never intended to run a haulage business; he initially bough...

This 250-year old story will fascinate lovers of Guinness beer and memorabilia as well as those interested in this remarkable family of brewers and...

Victorian pumping stations are colourful cathedrals of utility. Their imposing and striking exteriors enclose highly decorative cast-iron frames, b...

Scottish Arctic Whaling brings to light a previously little-known but important Scottish industry. The author's extensive use of original sources s...

Christian Wolmar expertly tells the story of the Trans-Siberian railway from its conception and construction under Tsar Alexander III, to the north...

In the early 1870s a night-time view over Britain would have revealed towns lit by the warm glow of gas and oil lamps and a much darker countryside...

The Victorians risked more than just delays when boarding a steam train . . .Victorian inventors certainly didn't lack steam, but while they squabb...

A superb history of labor on the East Coast waterfront that may be the best account we have, not only of the industry, but of any sector of labor r...

On a Saturday morning in November 1865, between 1,200 and 1,500 men gathered above the small town of Bethesda, to launch a society which they calle...