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| Author | : Joanna Foat |
| Publisher | : The History Press |
| Total Pages | : 346 |
| Release | : 2019-03-04 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0750991607 |
When war was declared in 1939, Britain was almost completely dependent on imported timber – but only had seven months of it stockpiled. Timber was critical to the war effort: it was needed for everything from aircraft and shipbuilding to communications and coal mining. The British timber trade was in trouble. Enter the Lumberjills. Lacking in both men and timber, the government made a choice. Reluctantly, they opened lumber work for women to apply – and apply they did. The Women's Timber Corps had thousands of members who would prove themselves as strong and as smart as any man: they felled and crosscut trees by hand, operated sawmills, and ran whole forestry sites. They may not have been on the front line, but they fought their own battles on the home front for respect and equality. And in the midst of heavy labour and wartime, they lived a life, making firm friends and even finding soulmates. In Lumberjills, researcher Joanna Foat tells their story for the first time, and gives them the recognition they so truly deserve.
| Author | : Neil R. Storey |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 64 |
| Release | : 2022-03-17 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 178442501X |
An illustrated introduction to how British industries, supported by thousands of newly recruited women, strove to meet the nation's wartime need for munitions, armour, shipping, uniforms and aircraft. During the Second World War (1939–45), Britain stretched every sinew of its industrial might to fend off a Nazi invasion. As the nation stood alone against Fortress Europe, it harnessed, coordinated and maximised its resources, firstly to defend itself and then to help liberate Axis-occupied countries. Wartime Industry uses informative text and beautiful illustrations to show how the men and women of Britain met this unprecedented demand for military and home-front materials. It explores the work of Lord Beaverbrook's highly organised Ministry of Aircraft Production; the 'Shadow Factories' that enabled manufacturers such as Vauxhall and Rootes to make tanks and aircraft; the Royal Ordnance Factories that produced firearms and explosives; the 'Bevin Boys' conscripted to work in the coal mines; the Women's Timber Corps; and war workers – who, together, helped the nation to make it.
| Author | : Dick Richards |
| Publisher | : BRILL |
| Total Pages | : 330 |
| Release | : 2021-11-22 |
| Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
| ISBN | : 9004474390 |
This book tells the fascinating story of the policies and projects that resulted in doubling the size of British forests over the past eighty years and of the Acts and actors that played a role in this development. By the end of the century the area of forests in the United Kingdom (including Northern Ireland) had risen to over two and three quarter million hectares and covered eleven per cent of the land area. Three quarters of them consisted of plantations. Few other countries - Ireland and Denmark are two - have achieved a comparable change in the rural landscape in favour of forestry over as short a time. Furthermore, from being in a deplorable state by the end of the First World War, British forests are now well above the European average in terms of productivity (wood yield per hectare). At the same time they are being called upon to meet increasingly heavy social and environmental demands from a dense, largely urbanised society.
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| Total Pages | : 1128 |
| Release | : 1909 |
| Genre | : Lumber trade |
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| Author | : Janet Ziegler |
| Publisher | : Stanford, Calif. : Hoover Institution Press |
| Total Pages | : 224 |
| Release | : 1971 |
| Genre | : World War, 1939-1945 |
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| Author | : Joel Hurstfield |
| Publisher | : Krause Publications |
| Total Pages | : 554 |
| Release | : 1953 |
| Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
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| Total Pages | : 532 |
| Release | : 1963 |
| Genre | : Forests and forestry |
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| Total Pages | : 24 |
| Release | : 1946 |
| Genre | : Housing |
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| Author | : David Foot |
| Publisher | : The History Press |
| Total Pages | : 248 |
| Release | : 2010-09-06 |
| Genre | : Nature |
| ISBN | : 0752496751 |
Britain’s great cloak of natural forest disappeared mostly in prehistoric times. Over the passage of time and by the industrial revolution, Britain’s economy had become almost entirely dependent on timber imports from abroad. Shipping blockades in the First World War meant a frantic search for woodlands that could be cut down to make vital pit props and sawn wood for wartime construction. After the war, Britain’s tree cover was near to an all-time low. Only since 1919 have practical measures been taken to reverse the long history of forest decline, and a hundred years of tree planting has seen the forest cover of Britain more than double.Today, tree planting in Britain is motivated more by environmental and social concerns than purely timber production. In Woods and People, David Foot reveals the story of twentieth-century forest creation, and the eureka moment in the 1980s that challenged foresters and conservationists to work together on new ideas.
| Author | : A. Rupert Hall |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 146 |
| Release | : 2016-09-30 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1350018112 |
The technical problems confronting different societies and periods, and the measures taken to solve them form the concern of this annual collection of essays. Volumes contain technical articles ranging widely in subject, time and region, as well as general papers on the history of technology. In addition to dealing with the history of technical discovery and change, History of Technology also explores the relations of technology to other aspects of life -- social, cultural and economic -- and shows how technological development has shaped, and been shaped by, the society in which it occurred.
