Industrialisation & Industrial History

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...