Industrialisation & Industrial History

The social, industrial and economic changes imposed on the Sheffield area during the 1980s are captured with remarkable clarity in this second Imag...

Following on from his popular series examining industrial steam in regions of the UK, Gordon Edgar looks at a series of fascinating workings around...

Lose yourself in the vast sewer networks that lie beneath the worlds great cities past and present. Let detailed archival plans, maps and photogra...

The nostalgic and heart-warming account of the fortunes of G. C. Fox & Co, a Cornish family shipping business through eight generations. Pepp...

From best-selling railway expert, Julian Holland, explore Britains historical railways in All Aboard. The history of Britains railways is...

Samuel Smiles published Lives of the Engineers in 1862. The noted biographer presented his engineers as heroic progress makers who conquered nature...

The history of the Clyde and the great ships that were built there is well known. Less familiar and equally important, however, is the story of how...

The extent and irreversibility of US decline is becoming ever more obvious as America loses war after war and as one industry after another loses i...

The oil industry in the United States has been the subject of innumerable histories. But books on the development of the natural gas industry and t...