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  • The History of the London Water Industry, 1580–1820

    by Leslie Tomory ...
    This in-depth study explores the technological, cultural, and mercantile factors behind the infrastructure that transformed early modern London.Beginning in 1580, a number of competing London companies sold water directly to consumers through a large network of wooden mains in the expanding metropolis. This new water industry flourished throughout the 1600s, eventually expanding to serve tens of ... Read more

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  • Life in the UK 2013 3-in-1 Study Guide

    by Sandra Royle ...
    This book contains everything you need to pass the Life in the UK test - FIRST TIME! 1: All the official study material 2: Test questions and glossary at the end of each topic 3: Study techniques to help you learn quicker and easier ... Read more

    $2.72 USD

  • Iron, Steam & Money

    The Making of the Industrial Revolution

    by Roger Osborne ...
    In late eighteenth-century Britain a handful of men brought about the greatest transformation in human history. Inventors, industrialists and entrepreneurs ushered in the age of powered machinery and the factory, and thereby changed the whole of human society, bringing into being new methods of social and economic organisation, new social classes, and new political forces. The Industrial ... Read more

    $21.29 USD

  • Tracing Your Ancestors Through Local History Records

    A Guide for Family Historians

    Series series Tracing Your Ancestors
    Family history should reveal more than facts and dates, lists of names and places it should bring ancestors alive in the context of their times and the surroundings they knew and research into local history records is one of the most rewarding ways of gaining this kind of insight into their world. That is why Jonathan Oatess detailed introduction to these records is such a useful tool for anyone ... Read more

    $9.89 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Time Traveller's Handbook

    A Guide to the Past

    Series Book 9 - Genealogist's Reference Shelf
    Do you know how long it took to sail across the Atlantic Ocean? Was it faster from east to west or west to east? Imagine sailing to India, a five-month trip around the Cape of Good Hope! No wonder late Victorians valued the steamship and the Suez Canal. What difference did the inventions of the telephone or steam engine make to our ancestors lives? Do you know what a rod or a chain is and what ... Read more

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  • Dragons

    Ten Entrepreneurs Who Built Britain

    by Liam Byrne ...
    Britain's rise to global dominance from the 16th century owed as much to the vision and creativity of traders, industrialists and bankers as it did to wars of conquest fought by military men.DRAGONS tells the story of British business endeavour through the lives of ten titans of commerce. Beginning with the Tudor merchants who transformed England's economy via trade with the New World, Liam Byrne ... Read more

    $8.09 USD

  • The Great Plague of London

    Plague has been the most feared disease across Europe since the Black Death in the 1340s. Dreaded because of the scale of the mortality and its sheer foulness, its periodic outbreaks had a devastating impact. London’s last and most destructive attack came in 1665, when, according to Bishop Gilbert Burnet, ‘a most terrible plague broke out, that depopulated the city of London, ruined the trade of ... Read more

    $9.39 USD

  • Redpath

    The History of a Sugar House

    Redpath, today a household name for sugar in Canada, has its roots in the story of an enterprising Scots immigrant, initially a stone mason and later a building contractor during the boom days of Montreal’s growth from a small provincial centre to a major North American city. In 1854, the ever-energetic John Redpath, by then a self-made millionaire in his late fifties, launched a new career as an ... Read more

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  • Glasgow

    A History of the City

    by Michael Fry ...
    Beloved, reviled – and not only by Glaswegians – Glasgow isn't just the Industrial Revolution nor the Victorian slums. Founded in the sixth century, its forebears pushed back the Romans.The roof of its cathedral, founded in the twelfth century, survived the Reformation. Its fifteenth-century university welcomed Adam Smith and the Enlightenment. It prospered from sugar, tobacco, cotton and slavery ... Read more

    $8.09 USD

  • The Great Famine - Ireland 1847 to 1851

    by Brian Igoe ...
    This is a Litebite Book, about 6,000 words long. The Great Famine which afflicted Ireland between 1846 and 1851 is perhaps the most studied, the most commented upon, the most reviled, and yet the most formative event in modern Irish History. Many books have been written about the famine, most recently The Famine Plot: England's Role in Ireland's Greatest Tragedy (2012) by Tim-Pat Coogan. What was ... Read more

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  • Our Village Ancestors

    A Genealogist's Guide to Understanding the English Rural Past

    by Helen Osborn ...
    This book will be a source of help for anybody researching their farming and countryside ancestors in England. Looked at through the lens of rural life, and specifically the English village, it provides advice and inspiration on placing rural people into their geographic and historical context. It covers the time from the start of parish registers in the Tudor world, when most of our ancestors ... Read more

    $16.39 USD

  • England's Magnificent Gardens

    How a Billion-Dollar Industry Transformed a Nation, from Charles II to Today

    An altogether different kind of book on English gardens—the first of its kind—a look at the history of England’s magnificent gardens as a history of Britain itself, from the seventeenth-century gardens of Charles II to those of Prince Charles today.In this rich, revelatory history, Sir Roderick Floud, one of Britain’s preeminent economic historians, writes that gardens have been created in Britain ... Read more

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