Industrialisation & Industrial History

First hailed as a wonder of the new industrial world, to later 19th-century commentators the name Ancoats became synonymous with dark satanic mills...

Maurice Broomfield (1916-2010) was a humanist photographer of the heroic and sublime - and sometimes surreal - qualities of industry and manufactur...

***The subject of the new major film by Mike Leigh***Unity of the oppressed can make a difference in politically uncertain times A peaceful protes...

As the columns of French infantry marched up the slopes of the Mont St Jean at Waterloo, the British heavy cavalry, the Royal Scots Greys to the fo...

The Hardys as farmers and brewers, their workforce and their wider circle were constantly on the move: itinerancy was a way of life. Roads, waterwa...

It is more than 200 years since the worlds first steam railway locomotive hauled its initial load of iron ore and passengers on a short, slow journ...

A DAILY TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEAR 2022'There is unlikely to be a fuller or more informative history of Birmingham than Vinen's' Jonathan Coe, Fina...

Britains key importance in world history was a product of its constitution and its empire, but both, in turn, were sustained and supported by Brita...

The British Industrial Revolution has long been seen as the spark for modern, global industrialization and sustained economic growth. Indeed the or...

Labor's End traces the discourse around automation from its origins in the factory to its wide-ranging implications in political and social life. A...

*Longlisted for the William MB Berger Prize for British Art History, 2022*A spectacular new biography of the great designer, entrepreneur, abolitio...

In recent years, the integrity of food production and distribution has become an issue of wide social concern. The media frequently report on cases...

This business history analyzes the connections between private business, disarmament, and re-armament as they affected arms procurement and militar...

Jan Breman takes dispossession as his central theme in this ambitious analysis of labour bondage in India's changing political economy from 1962 to...

Sissons' Paints was part of Hull. For over 150 years, the Sissons family, through six generations, treated their ever-expanding company workforce a...

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...