The Canals of South and South East England
Author | : Charles Hadfield |
Publisher | : A. M. Kelley |
Total Pages | : 406 |
Release | : 1969 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
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Author | : Charles Hadfield |
Publisher | : A. M. Kelley |
Total Pages | : 406 |
Release | : 1969 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
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Author | : Andy Wood |
Publisher | : Amberley Publishing Limited |
Total Pages | : 452 |
Release | : 2014-06-15 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 1445639270 |
A resurgence in canal restoration has seen many English canals reopen in the past three decades, but many are still abandoned, some even vanished under roads, railways and buildings.
Author | : Joseph Boughey |
Publisher | : The History Press |
Total Pages | : 451 |
Release | : 2012-05-30 |
Genre | : Transportation |
ISBN | : 0752487116 |
The first edition of British Canals was published in 1950 and was much admired as a pioneering work in transport history. Joseph Boughey, with the advice of Charles Hadfield, has previously revised and updated the perennially popular material to reflect more recent changes. For this ninth edition, Joseph Boughey discusses the many new discoveries and advances in the world of canals around Britain, inevitably focussing on the twentieth century to a far greater extent than in any previous edition of this book, while still within the context of Hadfield's original work.
Author | : Charles Hadfield |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 1967 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
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Author | : Anthony Burton |
Publisher | : Casemate Publishers |
Total Pages | : 231 |
Release | : 2015-11-30 |
Genre | : Transportation |
ISBN | : 1473870356 |
Canal Builders is a classic history book for anyone interested in the development of Britain's canal system. The book, which was first published in the 1970s, is now republished here in a new fifth edition. It takes the reader from the middle of the eighteenth century, to the start of the railway age in the early nineteenth century. Anthony Burton has revised and improved the original text, using new material that he has found in archives since it was first published, and has added many extra illustrations. This is the remarkable story of the many groups of people who were responsible for building Britain's canal system. There were industrialists such as Josiah Wedgwood, who promoted canals to help his own industry, and speculators, financed the projects in the hope of a good return. The work was planned by engineers, some of whom, such as James Brindley and Thomas Telford, have become famous, while others have remained virtually unknown but still did magnificent work. This is also the story of the great, anonymous army of men who actually did the work the navvies. This was the first book ever to study the lives of these labourers in detail. Altogether it is an epic story of how the transport route that made the industrial revolution possible was built.'Well planned and well written There is no better introduction to the early canal age.' The EconomistLinks End Links Author End Author
Author | : Keith Robbins |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 962 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Great Britain |
ISBN | : 9780198224969 |
Containing over 25,000 entries, this unique volume will be absolutely indispensable for all those with an interest in Britain in the twentieth century. Accessibly arranged by theme, with helpful introductions to each chapter, a huge range of topics is covered. There is a comprehensiveindex.
Author | : David Turnock |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 378 |
Release | : 2016-12-05 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1351958933 |
Although a great deal has been published on the economic, social and engineering history of nineteenth-century railways, the work of historical geographers has been much less conspicuous. This overview by David Turnock goes a long way towards restoring the balance. It details every important aspect of the railway’s influence on spatial distribution of economic and social change, providing a full account of the nineteenth-century geography of the British Isles seen in the context of the railway. The book reviews and explains the shape of the developing railway network, beginning with the pre-steam railways and connections between existing road and water communications and the new rail lines. The author also discusses the impact of the railways on the patterns of industrial, urban and rural change throughout the century. Throughout, the historical geography of Ireland is treated in equal detail to that of Great Britain.
Author | : Andrew Charlesworth |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 212 |
Release | : 2017-07-06 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1351625756 |
The outbreaks and collective violence arising from the tensions existing within society have long been themes in the study of British social history. This book, first published in 1983, attempts to survey the whole range of these rural riots, to compare and contrast them, and to draw general conclusions. Seventy-five maps are included in this volume, each with an accompanying commentary written by an authority on the particular subject. Taken together, the maps show how the distribution of protest changed over time, how particular forms of protest – riots connected with land, with food and with labour – altered as Britain developed from a predominantly feudal to a prominently capitalist society. This title will be of interest to students of history.
Author | : Richard Brown |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 494 |
Release | : 2002-11-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1134982763 |
For both contemporaries and later historians the Industrial Revolution is viewed as a turning point' in modern British history. There is no doubt that change occurred, but what was the nature of that change and how did affect rural and urban society? Beginning with an examination of the nature of history and Britain in 1700, this volume focuses on the economic and social aspects of the Industrial Revolution. Unlike many previous textbooks on the same period, it emphasizes British history, and deals with developments in Wales, Scotland, and Ireland in their own right. It is the emphasis on the diversity, not the uniformity of experience, on continuities as well as change in this crucial period of development, which makes this volume distinctive. In his companion title Richard Brown completes his examination of the period and looks at the changes that took place in Britain's political system and in its religious affiliations.