Britain's Industrial Heritage


Book Description

In this book, the author focuses on the golden age of British industry, from the 18th to the 21st centuries. Featuring canals, mining, iron and steel, railways, shipbuilding and shipping, manufacturing and road transport, and with a comprehensive gazetteer of the principal sites open to the public, this handy-sized pocket guide is the ideal companion in exploring the rich heritage of Britain's glorious industrial past.




Fred Dibnah's Industrial Age


Book Description

Accompanying the television series, Fred Dibnah tells Britain's industrial history and picks out the machinery that made history. Travelling throughout Britain, Dibnah describes what life was really like for people in the industrial age and provides a list of industrial heritage sites to visit.




The Birth of Industrial Britain


Book Description

The companion volume to The Birth of Industrial Britain: Economic Change, together they provide a comprehensive guide to Britain's development as the first industrial power. This volume focuses on the social impact of early industrializaton on the population and looks at living standards, work and leisure, crime and the law, religion, education, the Poor Law and popular protest. An excellent introduction providing a clear and readable account for students of modern British social and economic history.




Guide to Britain's Working Past


Book Description

A fascinating photographic chronicle of Britain's industrial heritage.










The Industrial Revolution and British Society


Book Description

This text is a wide-ranging survey of the principal economic and social aspects of the first Industrial Revolution.