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...

Faversham has always been a hard-working town. Its very name, which was derived from Latin and Old English, means the metal workers village, and in...

Brooklyns Domino Sugar Refinery, once the largest in the world, shut down in 2004 after a long struggle. Most New Yorkers know it only as an icon o...

'Exquisitely written and ripe with detail' Sunday Times. 'An engaging book... He knows his British stuff' The Times. 'One of England's most skill...

During the Industrial Revolution, the western valleys of Gwent underwent a dramatic change to become one of the most important iron producing areas...

Neoliberalism is dead. Again. Yet the philosophy of the free market and the strong state has an uncanny capacity to survive and even thrive in cris...

This follow-up to the first Mine to Mill book continues the exploration of the American iron ore trade on the Great Lakes from the golden age of pi...

2020 Book of the Year  International Labor History Association Honorable Mention Philip Taft Labor History Prize This rich history details the...

Anthony Burton has travelled from the Highlands of Scotland, to the south west of England in pursuit of his passion for the steam engine in all its...

For those of advanced tastes, the Modern Movement was a welcome corrective to the debased aesthetics of the commercial world. The products of light...

They Taught Us Skills for Life: We are the Engineers! Scotland's labour history has been the subject of many important studies, surveys, articles a...

The remnants of slate mining and quarrying form as much a part of the Lakeland historic landscape as the stone walls, heathered moorlands and Lakel...