Industrialisation & Industrial History
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The Rise and Fall of British Shipbuilding
Anthony BurtonCurrent price €16.99Original price €19.99From modest beginnings, Britain rose throughout the nineteenth century to become the greatest shipbuilding nation in the world, yet by the end of t...
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Horse-Drawn Transport in Leeds: William Turton, Corn Merchant and Tramway Entrepreneur
Andrew TurtonCurrent price €18.69Original price €21.99The 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...
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Mayday!: A History of Flight through its Martyrs, Oddballs and Daredevils
David DarlingCurrent price €11.89Original price €13.99The 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...
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London''s Lost Power Stations and Gasworks
Ben PedrocheCurrent price €19.54Original price €22.99Many of Londons original power stations have either been demolished, converted for other use, or stand derelict awaiting redevelopment that is seem...
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History''s Most Dangerous Jobs: Miners
Anthony BurtonCurrent price €16.65Original price €18.50Mining is Britains oldest industry, and this book follows the men and, in the past, women who spent their lives working underground. Since the New ...
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Canal 250: The Story of Britain''s Canals
Anthony BurtonCurrent price €19.54Original price €22.99When 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...
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The Industrial Revolution: A Very Short Introduction: A Very Short Introduction
Robert C. AllenCurrent price €14.39Original price €15.99The 'Industrial Revolution' was a pivotal point in British history that occurred between the mid-eighteenth and mid-nineteenth centuries and led to...
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Victoria''s Children of the Dark
Alan GallopCurrent price €14.44Original price €16.99Victoria's Children of the Dark tells the story of Queen Victoria's invisible subjects - women and children who laboured beneath her 'green and ple...
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Work, Sex and Power: The Forces that Shaped Our History
Willie ThompsonCurrent price €25.65Original price €28.50This 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...
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Track
Jim PikeCurrent price €15.73Original price €18.50The permanent way is a principal feature of all railways, but is little explored. Jim Pikes illustrated history fills this gap in railway literatur...
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Coventry''s Bicycle Heritage
Damien KimberleyCurrent price €24.23Original price €28.50Coventry has a remarkable bicycle manufacturing heritage. From the first velocipedes built in 1868, the city went on to become the home of the Brit...
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The Sugar Girls: Tales of Hardship, Love and Happiness in Tate & Lyles East End
Duncan BarrettCurrent price €14.44Original price €16.99Tales of Hardship, Love and Happiness in Tate & Lyles East End Factories. The Sugar Girls went straight to No.10 in the Sunday Times Bestseller...
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The Pit Sinkers of Northumberland and Durham
Peter Ford MasonCurrent price €19.79Original price €21.99Shaft 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...
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The Great Filth: Disease, Death and the Victorian City
Stephen HallidayCurrent price €20.69Original price €22.99Victorian Britain was the world's industrial powerhouse. Its factories, mills and foundries supplied a global demand for manufactured goods. As Bri...
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Wobblies of the World: A Global History of the IWW
Pluto PressCurrent price €89.09Original price €98.99The 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...
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A Walk Along the Ironstone: Being the Activities of the Oxfordshire Ironstone Company
CHRIS HONECurrent price €15.29Original price €16.99Current price €15.29Original price €16.99Save 10% -
The SS Great Britain Story
John ChristopherCurrent price €14.44Original price €16.99The SS Great Britain Story is a concise account of one of the most famous steamships ever built. The great Victorian engineer Isambard Kingdom Brun...
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British Leyland Motor Corporation 1968-2005: The Story From Inside
Anne YoungsonCurrent price €16.99Original price €19.99British Leyland Motor Corporation, formed in the wake of the post-war manufacturing boom, brought together almost all the British-owned car and com...
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The Steam Workshops of the Great Western Railway
Ken GibbsCurrent price €18.69Original price €21.99The nineteenth century was a time of innovation and expansion across the industrial landscape, and nowhere more so than on the railways, as the new...
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The King of Vodka: The Story of Pyotr Smirnov and the Upheaval of an Empire
Linda HimelsteinCurrent price €15.75Original price €17.50Vodka pioneer Pyotr Smirnov is one the most fascinating salesmen and entrepeneurs the world has ever known, and his life as recreated by Linda Hime...
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A Full Account of the Dreadful Explosion of Wallsend Colliery by which 101 Human Beings Perished!
VariousCurrent price €8.09Original price €8.99A colliery explosion, more disastrous than any that can be remembered, took place on Thursday afternoon, the 18th June, 1835An Account of the Dread...
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The Global Challenge of Peace: 1919 as a Contested Threshold to a New World Order: 2021
Liverpool University PressCurrent price €110.69Original price €122.99This book scrutinizes the events of 1919 from below: the global underside of the Wilsonian moment. During 1919 the Great Powers redrew the map of t...
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John Baskerville: Art and Industry in the Enlightenment
Liverpool University PressCurrent price €33.99Original price €39.99This book is concerned with the eighteenth-century typographer, printer, industrialist and Enlightenment figure, John Baskerville (1707-75). Basker...
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Manuscripts and Printed Books in Europe 13501550: Packaging, Presentation and Consumption
Liverpool University PressCurrent price €35.09Original price €38.99This collaborative collection considers the packaging, presentation and consumption of medieval manuscripts and early printed books in Europe 13501...
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