Barrie Trinder has been a leading expert on industrial history for many years & this is perhaps his most important book to date: a general overview of the industrial revolution across the British Isles. The industrial revolution was one of the defining changes of human history & it happened in Britain first. It changed radically the way in which goods were made: for the first time large factories were built to house the machines & power systems that had been invented. It led to new ways of working & living: it concentrated workers in large workplaces often in the rapidly growing towns & cities. Along with spectacular profits & economic benefits it brought danger pollution & increasing inequality between rich & poor. Alongside industry arrived canals railways cast-iron bridges & iron ships. The industrial revolution created the country & the society we recognise today. ...

Fully illustrated with stunning photographs of dray horses coopers & grand Victorian architecture an elegy for the loss of ...

From county grounds where Denis Compton hit a century to the smallest village field Britain's Lost Cricket Grounds movingly shows how picturesque greenery gave way to shopping malls & housing estates. The cricket ground is as much a part of the British landscape as the parish church. Hastings used to have a historic ground in the middle of the town surrounded by elegant houses
- but then recently it disappeared under a shopping precinct with a branch of River Island where the wicket used to be. Yorkshire used to play at Sheffield's Bramall Lane
- until the football club built grandstands over it. Like so many companies with works grounds Guinness have closed their cricket ground at Park Royal & sold it for an industrial estate. Now in a further addition to Aurum's successful ' Lost' series following Britain's Lost Cities & Lost Victorian Britain Guardian journalist Chris Arnot tours the country in search of our most lamented lost cricket grounds hearing reminiscences from former players & spectators & finding what if anything is left nowadays apart from the poignant photographs of their picturesque heyday that make this a nostalgic & rueful trip back in time.

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A striking photographic record of how the Beeching cuts & modernisation saw our grand terminal stations soaring viaducts & cavernous locomotive works wiped from the landscape The current restoration of St Pancras Station & its Midland Hotel is a glorious exception to a melancholy rule
- that the finer our railway architecture the more likely it was to be demolished in the name of progress. Who would know that the ugly low concrete bunker of Birmingham New Street station replaced a handsome glass-roofed train shed or that until the 1960s the stupendously high Belah viaduct swept across a remote Cumbrian valley
- or that the outlet mall in Swindon selling cheap designer clothing used to be he great GWR locomotive works?
- or that on little bucolic branch lines in the West Country or Essex an old bus body was the waiting-room? In over 200 fascinating & often rare images John Minnis documents the remarkably rich architectural heritage of our railways from quaint country halts to distinguished railway hotels
- all of which exists now only in photographs.



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A handy-sized photographic field guide that aims to help both beginners & experts alike to learn more about some of the conspicuous picturesque & even bizarre galls & what causes them in the first place. The book

Features: * stunning colour plates showing typical views of each type of gall featured. Approx. 200 photos & 2 illustrations. * Detailed gall profiles covering key identification features & on what tree or plant to look. * Split into three sections covering galls on Oaks on other trees & shrubs & on herbaceous plants. * Details of other reading for those who wish to take the subject further. * A handy index of host plants Prepared by members of the British Plant Gall Society with the aim of encouraging an augmented interest in the topic & an increase in younger naturalists who will continue studying this fascinating subject into the future. Readership: Naturalists students land managers those interested in the interaction between insect & plant-life.

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' George III is alleged to have married secretly on 17th April 1759 a Quakeress called Hannah Lightfoot daughter of a Wapping shoemaker who is said to have borne him three children. Documents relating to the alleged marriage bearing the Prince's signature were impounded & examined in 1866 by the Attorney General. Learned opinion at the time leaned to the view that these documents were genuine. They were then placed in the Royal Archives at Windsor; in 1910 permission was refused a would-be author who asked to see them. If George III did make such a marriage when he was Prince of Wales before the passing of the Royal Marriages Act in 1772 then his subsequent marriage to Queen Charlotte was bigamous & every monarch of Britain since has been a usurper the rightful heirs of George III being his children by Hannah Lightfoot if they ever existed'
- From Britain's Royal Families. Britain's Royal Families" is a unique reference book. It provides for the first time in one volume complete genealogical details of all members of the royal houses of England Scotland & Great Britain
- from 800AD to the present. Here is the vital biographical information relating not only to each monarch but also to every member of their immediate family from parents to grandchildren. Drawing on countless authorities both ancient & modern Alison Weir explores the royal family tree in unprecedented depth & provides a comprehensive guide to the heritage of today's royal family."

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Britain's Sea Mammals" is the essential field guide to all the sea mammals
- whales dolphins porpoises & seals
- found in coastal

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A lavishly illustrated tribute to Britain's oldest largest & most famous trees told through legends history & literature. Trees have always inspired awe & wonder & some of our ancient trees have been standing for over a thousand years. In this fascinating & lovingly researched book the author selects the most interesting of them & compares archive photographs & engravings with contemporary colour photographs. Some of the trees featured have changed drastically over the centuries while others seem to have hardly changed at all. Each tree has its own distinct shape & character which it carries through its lifetime. Many of the trees in Britain's Tree Story are still standing & there is a gazetteer of where to see them including in various National Trust properties. Britain's Tree Story is a fascinating & beautifully illustrated celebration of Britain's trees & the intriguing legends & stories that surround them. Ancient trees are a living link to our past & they often provide a fragile constant in an ever-changing world. This is their story but in equal measure it is also ours. ...

This beautiful book showcases the very best of Britain with remarkable imagery of the landscapes settlements & people that make this nation unique. The photographs reveal the diversity of the land from Southwest England to the Scottish Highlands. Special fold-out sections make the most of fabulous images showing the seaside splendour of Brighton the breathtaking waterscapes of the Lake District the picturesque Cotswolds & the distintive wildlife of the Mull. The book records & celebrates Britains loveliest countryside & some of its most appealing towns villages & historic buildings. ...

Britains Historic Railway Buildings is a magisterial reference work on the historic structures on Britains railways in England Scotland & Wales. First published in 2003 by OUP the author will bring the book fully up to date to provide a new book on the subject. In the last few decades the value of Britains railway heritage has become increasingly important & today thousands of structures are listed or scheduled. This book

Includes:: over 2 300 of these structures each of which is given a detailed description supported by photographs maps a survey of the evolution of structures summary of the listing process a list of important buildings lost biographical details of leading railway engineers & architects glossary of terms; bibliography & index. Many structures still play an active part in railway operations but this book also covers structures no longer in active use. In this book the reader will find detailed information about the history of all the surviving historic railway structures in Britain arranged in geographical order large & small from Brunels pioneering Thames Tunnel to the modernist Tooting Bec Underground station the monumental Forth Bridge to the small but delightful footbridges; gasworks & stations; viaducts & signalboxes
- a multitude of structures paying tribute to the verve & drive of one of Britains great industries of the last 200 years.


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