Industrialisation & Industrial History

Feeding Fascism explores how women negotiated the politics of Italy's Fascist regime in their daily lives and how they fed their families through a...

A facsimile edition of Bradshaw's Handbook of 1863, the book that inspired the BBC television series 'Great British Railway Journeys'. When Michae...

It seems bizarre that in a place as crowded, noisy and expensive as London there are still wasted unused spaces. The relentless drive for regenerat...

Used extensively and somewhat taken for granted by millions of commuters and tourists every day, the London Underground has long been a part of our...

During the Second World War over 1.5 million of women found themselves thrust into a male working world, having to learn new skills within a matter...

From modest beginnings, Britain rose throughout the nineteenth century to become the greatest shipbuilding nation in the world, yet by the end of t...

The golden age of coaching came between 1815 and 1840 as great road improvements occurred allowing trams, carts and buggies to be towed by horses c...

The thrilling stories of those who looked to the skies and dared to dream of flight 'Gripping dazzling tales of madness and derring do.' Brian Cle...

Many of Londons original power stations have either been demolished, converted for other use, or stand derelict awaiting redevelopment that is seem...

Mining is Britains oldest industry, and this book follows the men and, in the past, women who spent their lives working underground. Since the New ...

When a young English nobleman was thwarted in love he abandoned the court, retired to his estate near Manchester and built a canal to serve his coa...

The 'Industrial Revolution' was a pivotal point in British history that occurred between the mid-eighteenth and mid-nineteenth centuries and led to...

Victoria's Children of the Dark tells the story of Queen Victoria's invisible subjects - women and children who laboured beneath her 'green and ple...

This is the history of the world, from the origins of the Cosmos to the present day, seen through three major narratives: work, sex and power - the...

The permanent way is a principal feature of all railways, but is little explored. Jim Pikes illustrated history fills this gap in railway literatur...

Coventry has a remarkable bicycle manufacturing heritage. From the first velocipedes built in 1868, the city went on to become the home of the Brit...

Tales of Hardship, Love and Happiness in Tate & Lyles East End Factories. The Sugar Girls went straight to No.10 in the Sunday Times Bestseller...

Shaft sinking for the extraction of minerals has taken place for centuries, and for much of this time, coal mining was carried out in the North Eas...

Victorian Britain was the world's industrial powerhouse. Its factories, mills and foundries supplied a global demand for manufactured goods. As Bri...

The Industrial Workers of the World is a union unlike any other. Founded in 1905 in Chicago, it rapidly gained members across the world thanks to i...

The SS Great Britain Story is a concise account of one of the most famous steamships ever built. The great Victorian engineer Isambard Kingdom Brun...

British Leyland Motor Corporation, formed in the wake of the post-war manufacturing boom, brought together almost all the British-owned car and com...

The nineteenth century was a time of innovation and expansion across the industrial landscape, and nowhere more so than on the railways, as the new...

Vodka pioneer Pyotr Smirnov is one the most fascinating salesmen and entrepeneurs the world has ever known, and his life as recreated by Linda Hime...

A colliery explosion, more disastrous than any that can be remembered, took place on Thursday afternoon, the 18th June, 1835An Account of the Dread...