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Wedgwood was born in the Staffordshire Potteries in 1739 and lived in the area all his life. His family were all potters, working in traditional ways, but Josiah was to revolutionise the industry.

This book tells the often dramatic and always fascinating story of flight in lighter than air machines.

This book tells the story of one of Britain's most successful heritage railway projects.

An exploration of Britain's traditional cultural and working practices and how they are still visible in details of the landscape and infrastructure today.

New in-depth research with Informative, factual text.

This is the story of a thousand mile-long trip around England by canal.

This stimulating guide will help students and their teachers to achieve stylish performances of music of the Romantic period. Individual chapters from leading experts focus on historical background, notation and interpretation, and sources and editions, presenting the latest thinking on performance in a clear, helpful and practical way.

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The Orient Express traces the history of the service, from its glamorous beginnings, its popularity with European royalty and heads of state, to its demise in the age of postwar austerity, the Cold War and cheaper air travel.

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The 93-mile West Highland Way is indisputably Britain's most spectacular long-distance path.

Britian's role in the construction and management of a large proportion of the railways on a global scale. This is a much-revised edition with extra material and photographs

New Full Detailed Biography

The history and design of steam Locomotives, during the first fifty years of their development is a much under researched subject.

Mining is Britain's oldest industry, and this book tells the story of the men and, in the past, women who spent their lives working underground. Geographically the book covers the regions of Devon and Cornwall, Leicester and Nottingham, Yorkshire and Lancashire, Durham and Northumberland, South Wales and Southern Scotland. This is a dramatic story, telling of two wars, the fight against the dangers of floods and explosions and the often bitter...

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This is the story of the men who built Britain's canals and railways--not the engineers and the administrators, but the ones who provided the brawn and muscle. There had never been a workforce like the navvies, a great army of men, moving about the country following the work as it became available. This book will tell of their extraordinary feats of strength and their often colourful lives. They lived rough, usually having to make do with huts...

A history of the anatomy of canals