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  • On the Roads and in the Fields

    Fifty Years a Fowler Driver

    by Harry Smith-Powell ...
    Harry was born in a little Welsh town and was brought up with horses and steam engines engaged in timber haulage under contract to the Great Western Railway to load large timber for the Swindon works. This gave Harry the chance to learn from experience the handling of heavy tackle on the bad roads. So, when family troubles grew overbearing he made a quick getaway and joined the firm (Fowlers) that ... Read more

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  • Working Lives

    by David Hall ...
    In the early 1950s Britain was still the most urbanized and industrialized nation in the world, a global power in shipbuilding and the leading European producer of coal, steel, cars and textiles. For the many millions of men and women hard at work during that time, an infernal landscape of smoke-blackened factories, towering slag heaps and fiery furnaces dominated their lives. From the deep docks ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • What the Victorians Got Wrong

    by Stan Yorke, Trevor Yorke ...
    The nineteenth century was an era of scientific advance like no other in history. And no nation gained more from its forward momentum than Britain and her Empire. Railways were built, bridges constructed, rivers tamed and electricity harnessed, to the great benefit of all But progress was only achieved at high cost. Impatience for achievement too often resulted in catastrophe and disaster. In 1879 ... Read more

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  • Royal Enfield

    The story of the company and the people who made it great: 1851-1969

    by Anne Bradford ...
    Over 80 ex-employees and their descendants give perceptive and often humorous accounts of life in the Enfield works, charting its expansion from a humble needle factory into one of Britain’s best known motorcycle manufacturers. Contributions include Enfield-trained Bill Lomas, double World and British motorcycling champion, and Johnny Brittain who describes how he became the youngest member of the ... Read more

    $11.07 CAD

  • The Agony and the Ecstasy

    My Life as a Stonemason

    by John Hopkins ...
    This is the true story of my life, born into a family who lived in poverty on the edge of Bristol. In the early 1930s the economy of England started to improve. This improved my life in that I had my own pair of shoes to wear and some new clothes instead of hand me downs but never enough food. I relate some of my experiences as a child and teenager, then my Stonemasonry story. My career in the ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • History in a Hurry: Industrial Revolution

    by John Farman ...
    Series Book 7 - History in a Hurry
    John Farman, the genius (for want of a better word) responsible for the best-selling A VERY BLOODY HISTORY OF BRITAIN (WITHOUT THE BORING BITS), now tackles all the great periods of history - in less than 10,000 words.History in a Hurry is so short that there just isn't room for any boring bits!All you need to know (and a little bit less*) about the Industrial Revolution.(*Quite a lot less, ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD

  • Coal Mining in Lancashire & Cheshire

    by Alan Davies ...
    The area of Lancashire and Cheshire can be considered one of the homes of the Industrial Revolution, and it was the abundance of coal close to the surface that literally helped fuel the great growth in cities such as Manchester and Liverpool. With poor roads, it was easier to move coal by water and so Lancashire landowners developed the first canals in Britain. Lancashire coal powered the cotton ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

  • Voices from the Explosion: RAF Fauld, the World's Largest Accidental Blast, 1944

    by Valerie Hardy ...
    The story, told for the first time from eyewitness accounts, of the world's largest manmade pre-nuclear explosion. It happened at R.A.F. Fauld bomb store on 27th November 1944 and killed 70 people. The author's family farm was damaged in the blast but the family survived. Neighbouring friends, and their farm, disappeared forever.Today, a massive crater survives as a lasting reminder of the nearly ... Read more

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  • Fareham Revisited

    by Michael Stephenson ...
    Fareham Revisited started out as a poem, which Michael Stephenson was inspired to write when he was reflecting on how much his home town had changed since the 1950s and 1960s. The poem and its sentiments struck a chord with so many people that he decided to write a book about Fareham that would evoke more of these memories. The book was privately published in 2004. This new revised and expanded ... Read more

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  • The Industrial Revolution

    by Mary Beggs-Humphreys ...
    Series series Economic History
    Between the mid-eighteenth and mid-nineteenth centuries Great Britain changed from a mainly agricultural country into a mainly industrial one. Because the change came about so quickly we can indeed describe it as a revolution. This period of a hundred years might well be called 'the age of steam power’. Between them steam, coal and iron transform ed Britain’s industry, brought about a revolution ... Read more

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  • What the British Invented

    From the Great to the Downright Bonkers

    by Gilly Pickup ...
    Invent verb; to produce or contrive something previously unknown by the use of ingenuity or imagination. The world would be a much poorer place without our great British inventions – from catseyes to crossword puzzles, tarmac to telephones, steam engines to shorthand, British inventors have led the world with their ingenious (and sometimes slightly insane) ideas. The Brits are a creative lot: ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • Lancashire Mining Disasters 1835-1910

    by Jack Nadin ...
    Lancashire Mining Disasters chronicles the effects, death and grief of the local ming communities in Lancashire, through colliery accidents and explosions from the early 1830s through to 1910. It also recalls the great bravery of other miners, often from other pits in the recue attempts, who with no thought of their own safety went below ground to try and their fellow comrades. In doing so, they ... Read more

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