Product Description: The industrial revolution in Britain changed the world. The images we all share – of steam engines and locomotives, smoke and smog, multi-story textile mills and regiments of working men and women flooding out of factory gates at the end of their shift – are all so familiar that it is easy to forget how enormous, far-reaching and upsetting were the events and processes that brought us into this new, industrial age...read more

Product Description: At Ironbridge Gorge, a cradle of the Industrial Revolution, the latest wonders of engineering and metallurgical technology were to be seen in a spectacular natural setting in the 18th century. Barrie Trinder has created an invaluable anthology of the pioneering period when this corner of Shropshire was changing the world and was indeed, as Charles Hulbert described it in 1837, 'the most extraordinary district in the world'...read more

Product Description: The first bridge ever to be built of iron, in 1779, is perhaps the most important industrial monument in Britain. The bridge changed the pattern of communications in its area, and attracted thousands of sightseers. The first book with this title marked the bicentenary in 1979, explaining the conception, design, and construction of the bridge and its social impact...read more

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Product Description: This new book uses often remarkable probate inventories to explore the ways of life of the people who lived in the area between the 1600s and the 1760s ...coal miners, barge owners, ropemakers, tobacco pipe makers and shopkeepers...read more

Product Description: Shropshire extends from the fringes of the Black Country and the Potteries to the high sheep pastures of Clun Forest and the craggy heights of the Stiperstones. It has elegant towns such as Shrewsbury, Wroxeter and Ludlow, castles, canals and iron bridges, in fact it has everything...read more

Product Description: Industrial Archaeology is at the centre of the history of technology, and is concerned with the study, preservation and conservation of the sites and artefacts of scientific and manufacturing industry. This encyclopedia covers the US and Europe in particular, (with some entries on other parts of the developed world) with entries on nations, cities, individual sites, as well as a comprehensive set of entries on industrial processes themselves, from civil engineering to mining, from steelworking to transportation...read more

The Making of the Industrial Landscape