Abandoned & Vanished Canals of England
Abandoned & Vanished Canals of England

Author: Andy Wood

Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited

Published: 2014-06-15

Total Pages: 452

ISBN-13: 1445639270

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A resurgence in canal restoration has seen many English canals reopen in the past three decades, but many are still abandoned, some even vanished under roads, railways and buildings.

British Canals
British Canals

Author: Joseph Boughey

Publisher: The History Press

Published: 2012-05-30

Total Pages: 451

ISBN-13: 0752487116

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The first edition of British Canals was published in 1950 and was much admired as a pioneering work in transport history. Joseph Boughey, with the advice of Charles Hadfield, has previously revised and updated the perennially popular material to reflect more recent changes. For this ninth edition, Joseph Boughey discusses the many new discoveries and advances in the world of canals around Britain, inevitably focussing on the twentieth century to a far greater extent than in any previous edition of this book, while still within the context of Hadfield's original work.

An Atlas of Rural Protest in Britain 1548-1900
An Atlas of Rural Protest in Britain 1548-1900

Author: Andrew Charlesworth

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2017-07-06

Total Pages: 212

ISBN-13: 1351625756

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The outbreaks and collective violence arising from the tensions existing within society have long been themes in the study of British social history. This book, first published in 1983, attempts to survey the whole range of these rural riots, to compare and contrast them, and to draw general conclusions. Seventy-five maps are included in this volume, each with an accompanying commentary written by an authority on the particular subject. Taken together, the maps show how the distribution of protest changed over time, how particular forms of protest – riots connected with land, with food and with labour – altered as Britain developed from a predominantly feudal to a prominently capitalist society. This title will be of interest to students of history.

An Historical Geography of Railways in Great Britain and Ireland
An Historical Geography of Railways in Great Britain and Ireland

Author: David Turnock

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-12-05

Total Pages: 378

ISBN-13: 1351958933

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Although a great deal has been published on the economic, social and engineering history of nineteenth-century railways, the work of historical geographers has been much less conspicuous. This overview by David Turnock goes a long way towards restoring the balance. It details every important aspect of the railway’s influence on spatial distribution of economic and social change, providing a full account of the nineteenth-century geography of the British Isles seen in the context of the railway. The book reviews and explains the shape of the developing railway network, beginning with the pre-steam railways and connections between existing road and water communications and the new rail lines. The author also discusses the impact of the railways on the patterns of industrial, urban and rural change throughout the century. Throughout, the historical geography of Ireland is treated in equal detail to that of Great Britain.

The Civil Engineering of Canals and Railways before 1850
The Civil Engineering of Canals and Railways before 1850

Author: Michael M. Chrimes

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-09-08

Total Pages: 436

ISBN-13: 1351892630

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Between 1750 and 1850 the British landscape was transformed by a transport revolution which involved engineering works on a scale not seen in Europe since Roman times. While the economic background of the canal and railway ages are relatively well known and many histories have been written about the locomotives which ran on the railways, relatively little has been published on how the engineering works themselves were made possible. This book brings together a series of papers which seek to answer the questions of how canals and railways were built, how the engineers responsible organised the works, how they were designed and what the role of the contractors was in the process.