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  • The Rise and Fall of British Shipbuilding

    by Anthony Burton ...
    From modest beginnings, Britain rose throughout the nineteenth century to become the greatest shipbuilding nation in the world, yet by the end of the following century the British merchant fleet ranked just 38 in the world. The glory days of sail had given way to the introduction of the steam age. Traditional shipwrights had railed against new industrial methods resulting in the infamous ... Read more

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  • The Canal Pioneers

    Canal Construction from 2,500 BC to the Early 20th Century

    by Anthony Burton ...
    A "superbly told" history of canals and the men who built them, from ancient empires to modern civilization—includes photos and illustrations ( Narrow Boat).Stones for the pyramids of Egypt were brought to the site by canal, and one of the most imposing canal systems ever built, the Grand Canal of China, was begun in the sixth century BC. Development after the end of the Roman Empire was slow, but ... Read more

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  • Thomas Telford

    Master Builder of Roads & Canals

    by Anthony Burton ...
    Thomas Telford's life was extraordinary: born in the Lowlands of Scotland, where his father worked as a shepherd, he ended his days as the most revered engineer in the world, known punningly as The Colossus of Roads. He was responsible for some of the great works of the age, such as the suspension bridge across the Menai Straits and the mighty Pontcysyllte aqueduct. He built some of the best roads ... Read more

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  • Victorian and Edwardian Locomotive Portraits, Northern England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland

    by Anthony Burton ...
    Celebrates the evolution of steam locomotives during the Victorian and Edwardian eras through a rich collection of over a hundred historical photographs. The Victorian and Edwardian periods saw the development of the steam locomotive in Britain from a comparatively simple machine to a powerful main line express capable of speeds of a hundred miles an hour. The book starts with an introduction ... Read more

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  • Tracing Your Shipbuilding Ancestors

    A Guide For Family Historians

    by Anthony Burton ...
    Series series Tracing Your Ancestors
    Anthony Burton's concise and informative guide to British shipbuilding will be absorbing reading for anyone who wants to learn about its history or find out about the life of a shipbuilder and his family. In a clear and accessible way he traces its development from the medieval period to its peak in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and on into the present day. He describes how, at the ... Read more

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  • Josiah Wedgwood

    A New Biography

    by Anthony Burton ...
    The story of the innovative genius who became pottery maker to royalty—and to the world: "You don't have to know a glaze from a slip to enjoy this." — Kirkus ReviewsBorn in Staffordshire, England, to a family of traditional potters in 1730, Josiah Wedgwood would grow up to revolutionize the industry, founding the company still world-renowned in the twenty-first century. When he started work, the ... Read more

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  • Around Britain by Canal

    1,000 Miles of Waterways

    by Anthony Burton ...
    This is the story of a thousand mile-long trip around England by canal. At times the journey took the author out into the beautiful countryside, and elsewhere the canal crept round the edge of old industrial towns.It is a journey that proved full of surprises, delights and rich variety, as the book clearly demonstrates. The book illustrates the great contrasts between travelling on the wide tidal ... Read more

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  • Maritime London

    An Historical Journey in Pictures and Words

    by Anthony Burton ...
    The book looks at London's maritime history from the establishment of Roman Londinium to the present day. It discusses many different aspects of life on the Thames and its connecting waterways and canals. There was a time when the River Thames was the main highway for the city, when watermen plied their trade carrying passengers and goods in a wide variety of craft, ranging from rowing boats to ... Read more

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  • The Independent Locomotive Builders

    An Overall Historical Survey

    by Anthony Burton ...
    The big railway companies had famous locomotive works such as Crewe and Swindon, but this is the story of the very many other companies, who not only built locomotives for the British railways but supplied them to railways all round the world. Many of these companies were highly innovative, developing engines of many different types from narrow gauge to articulated locomotives and specialist ... Read more

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  • A History of the Cotton Industry

    A Story in Three Continents

    by Anthony Burton ...
    This book is about technology and how it has changed the lives of people on three continents over the last three hundred years. The development of the cotton industry was the starting point for one of the great turning points in history – the industrial revolution. It began with the importation of cloth into Britain from India and that created a new fashion. As the demand for cotton cloth grew, ... Read more

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  • Silk, the Thread that Tied the World

    by Anthony Burton ...
    A historical account of the origins of silk and how the manufacturing of this textile was transformed by the silk trade.Over a thousand years ago the Chinese discovered that the slender filaments that formed the cocoon of the silk moth could be woven into beautiful shimmering fabrics. For centuries they were able to keep the process a secret, but eventually started to trade the valuable cloth with ... Read more

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  • Mines and Miners of Cornwall and Devon

    The Tin and Copper Industries

    by Anthony Burton ...
    The eminent historian and author of The Rise of King Cotton uncovers the centuries-old story of tin mining in Southern England.Tin mining has existed in Cornwall and parts of Devon since before the Romans arrived in Britain. In this book, historian Anthony Burton explores the region's tin mining industry from its earliest period through to the present day.A specialist in the history of technology, ... Read more

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