From modest beginnings, Britain rose throughout the nineteenth century to become the greatest shi...

On Christmas Eve 1801, Cornish mining engineer Richard Trevithick tested the first steam locomoti...

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...

For centuries it was far more efficient to move goods by water than by road. The end of the 18th ...

The First World War is famous for the unprecedented loss of life on a global scale; it was a conf...

Somewhere around 4000 BC, people in Britain began to give up their old hunter-gatherer way of lif...

When a young English nobleman was thwarted in love he abandoned the court, retired to his estate ...

Over 4,000 years of history lie in the seams of British mines, beginning all the way back in the ...

Mining is Britain's oldest industry, and this book follows the men and, in the past, women who sp...

This new book from Anthony Burton looks at ten pivotal moments in transport world history, rangin...