Charcoal Iron Industry in the UK
Author : Peter Wickham King
Publisher :
Page : 709 pages
File Size : 18,70 MB
Release : 2019-07
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ISBN : 9781407315126
Author : Peter Wickham King
Publisher :
Page : 709 pages
File Size : 18,70 MB
Release : 2019-07
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ISBN : 9781407315126
Author : John F. Wilson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 135 pages
File Size : 21,47 MB
Release : 2021-06-29
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0429680422
This shortform book presents key peer-reviewed research selected by expert series editors and contextualised by new analysis from each author on how British industrial firms achieved a competitive advantage. With contributions on industrial cartelisation, organisational structure, the quality of British management, marketing and trade marks, labour relations, and technological innovation, this volume provides an array of fascinating insights into industrial history. Of interest to business and economic historians, this shortform book also provides analysis and illustrative case-studies that will be valuable reading across the social sciences.
Author : Steve Hindle
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 36,99 MB
Release : 2023-05-11
Category : History
ISBN : 0192694731
The Social Topography of a Rural Community is a micro-history of an exceptionally well-documented seventeenth-century English village: Chilvers Coton in north-eastern Warwickshire. Drawing on a rich archive of sources, including an occupational census, detailed estate maps, account books, private journals, and hundreds of deeds and wills, and employing a novel micro-spatial methodology, it reconstructs the life experience of some 780 inhabitants spread across 176 households. This offers a unique opportunity to visualize members of an English rural community as they responded to, and in turn initiated, changes in social and economic activity, making their own history on their own terms. In so doing the book brings to the fore the social, economic, and spatial lives of people who have been marginalized from conventional historical discourse, and offers an unusual level of detail relating to the spatial and demographic details of local life. Each of the substantive chapters focuses on the contributions and experiences of a particular household in the parish-the mill, the vicarage, the alehouse, the blacksmith's forge, the hovels of the labourers and coalminers, the cottages of the nail-smiths and ribbon-weavers, the farms of the yeomen and craftsmen, and the manor house of Arbury Hall itself-locating them precisely on specific sites in the landscape and the built environment; and sketching the evolving 'taskscapes' in which the inhabitants dwelled. A novel contribution to spatial history, as well as early modern material, social and economic history more generally, this study represents a highly original analysis of the significance of place, space, and flow in the history of English rural communities.
Author : Peter King
Publisher :
Page : 738 pages
File Size : 24,92 MB
Release : 2020
Category : Blast furnaces
ISBN : 9781407354699
"A new process of making iron, using a blast furnace and a forge, both powered by water, was introduced into the Weald in the 1490s, and spread to other parts of England and Wales from the 1550s. This book provides a history of every ironworks of the charcoal blast furnace period, except the Weald. It also covers early coke ironworks (built before 1815) and water-powered bloomeries (of the previous technology). After introductory material on the industry generally, each chapter deals with the ironworks of one district, including also other water-powered mills processing iron, steel furnaces, early ironworks powered by steam engines, and a few other works. Blade mills (and cutlers wheels), which provided the initial cutting edge for tools and needle mills are not included in those areas where they are ubiquitous. The period covered is an era in the technology of an important industry in Great Britain."--Volumes 1-2, back cover (page 4 of cover).
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Publisher :
Page : 790 pages
File Size : 50,25 MB
Release : 1884
Category : Mineral industries
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Author : David Patrick
Publisher :
Page : 778 pages
File Size : 16,69 MB
Release : 1914
Category : Gazetteers
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Author : Francis Hindes Groome
Publisher :
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 43,93 MB
Release : 1882
Category : Scotland
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Author : Stephen Broadberry
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 503 pages
File Size : 11,29 MB
Release : 2015-01-22
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1107070783
This is the first systematic quantitative account of British economic growth from the thirteenth century to the Industrial Revolution.
Author : Henry Cleere
Publisher :
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 48,4 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Industrial archaeology
ISBN : 9781898937043
Author : Jeremy Hodgkinson
Publisher :
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 40,37 MB
Release : 2008-07-14
Category : Iron industry and trade
ISBN : 9780752445731
For two periods of British history - the first part of the Roman occupation and the Tudor and early Stuart periods - the Weald of south-east England was the most productive iron-producing region in the country. Looking across the tranquil Wealden countryside, it is hard to identify anything that hints at its industrial past. Yet 400 years ago, nearly 100 furnaces and forges roared and hammered there, the smoke from charcoal-making curling up from the surrounding woods and the roads bustling with wagons laden with ore and iron sows. Many British naval campaigns, including the Spanish Armada, the wars against the Dutch and The Seven Years' War, relied on Wealden iron cannon; the pressures of conflict driving forward the development of iron-producing technology. For a time the economy of the whole area was dominated by the production of iron and its raw materials, providing employment, generating prosperity and shaping the landscape irrevocably. Drawing on a wealth of local evidence, this book explores the archaeology and history of an area whose iron industry was of international importance.