From modest beginnings, Britain rose throughout the nineteenth century to become the greatest shi...
This is the story of the men who built Britain's canals and railwaysnot the engineers and the a...
Samuel Smiles published Lives of the Engineers in 1862. The noted biographer presented his engine...
For centuries, most textile manufacturing relied on people working in their own homes. All that c...
The First World War is famous for the unprecedented loss of life on a global scale; it was a conf...
The eighteenth century saw the second Iron Age. Practically everything was made of iron: the mach...
When a young English nobleman was thwarted in love he abandoned the court, retired to his estate ...
Mining is Britain's oldest industry, and this book follows the men and, in the past, women who sp...