Public Sculpture of Staffordshire and the Black Country
Public Sculpture of Staffordshire and the Black Country

Author: George Thomas Noszlopy

Publisher: Liverpool University Press

Published: 2005-01-01

Total Pages: 371

ISBN-13: 0853239894

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The "Black Country" is an area historically known as the cradle of the Industrial Revolution—a thriving regioin built around deep coal seams, conjuring up images of fiery red furnaces by night and black, sooty citadels by day. Yet today the resource-rich region also features many striking public sculptures. This volume provides a comprehensive catalog to all of the historic sculptures and public monuments in Staffordshire and the Black Country. George Noszlopy and Fiona Waterhouse catalog each individual sculpture in detail, including information about the sculptor, the sculpture's historical and artistic significance, the commissioning agent, and the date of installation. The volume also features 350 black-and-white photographs that document the diverse and rich beauty of the region's public monuments. The ninth volume in the widely acclaimed, award-winning Public Sculpture of Britain series, Public Sculpture of Staffordshire and the Black Country is an invaluable resource for British historians, art scholars, and travelers alike.

South Staffordshire Coalfield
South Staffordshire Coalfield

Author: Nigel A. Chapman

Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited

Published: 2011-09-15

Total Pages: 157

ISBN-13: 1445624044

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Nigel Chapman brings together a fascinating selection of photographs, old and new, showing the changing face of the South Staffordshire Coalfield.

The Industrial Development of Birmingham and the Black Country, 1860-1927
The Industrial Development of Birmingham and the Black Country, 1860-1927

Author: G.C. Allen

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2018-01-10

Total Pages: 404

ISBN-13: 1351251325

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This book, first published in 1929, analyses the changes to Birmingham and the Black Country in the nineteenth century. The area underwent quite a transformation: many of the older trades were decaying, while at the same time a number of new manufactures were making a remarkable rapid advance. As a result of this, the industrial structure of the area in the early twentieth century was made up of very different constituents from those of which is was composed sixty years previously. This is an invaluable study of a remarkable industrial transformation that was carried out in a very short space of time.

The Encyclopaedia Britannica
The Encyclopaedia Britannica

Author: Hugh Chisholm

Publisher:

Published: 1911

Total Pages: 1116

ISBN-13:

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This eleventh edition was developed during the encyclopaedia's transition from a British to an American publication. Some of its articles were written by the best-known scholars of the time and it is considered to be a landmark encyclopaedia for scholarship and literary style.