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  • Intelligent Town

    An Urban History of Swansea, 1780-1855

    by Louise Miskell ...
    Series series Studies in Welsh History
    This is the first full-length study of Swansea’s urban development from the late eighteenth to the late nineteenth century. It tells the little known story of how Swansea gained an unrivalled position of influence as an urban centre, which led it briefly to claim to be the ‘metropolis of Wales’, and how it then lost this status in the face of rapid urban development elsewhere in Wales. As such it ... Read more

    $16.09 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • New Perspectives on Welsh Industrial History

    Edited by Louise Miskell ...
    The aim of this volume is to tell a story of Welsh industrial history different from the one traditionally dominated by the coal and iron communities of Victorian and Edwardian Wales. Extending their chronological scope from the early eighteenth- to the late twentieth-century, and encompassing a wider range of industries, the essays in this book combine studies of the internal organisation of ... Read more

    $30.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Swansea Copper

    A Global History

    by Chris Evans, Louise Miskell ...
    The first book to detail the global impact of copper production in Swansea, Wales, and how a major technological shift transformed the British Isles into the world's most dynamic center of copper smelting.Eighteenth-century Swansea, Wales, was to copper what nineteenth-century Manchester was to cotton or twentieth-century Detroit to the automobile. Beginning around 1700, Swansea became the place ... Read more

    $47.99 USD

  • Meeting Places: Scientific Congresses and Urban Identity in Victorian Britain

    by Louise Miskell ...
    Series series Science, Technology and Culture, 1700-1945
    The promotion of knowledge was a major preoccupation of the Victorian era and, beginning in 1831 with the establishment of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, a number of national bodies were founded which used annual, week-long meetings held each year in a different town or city as their main tool of knowledge dissemination. Historians have long recognised the power of ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

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  • Atlas of Industrializing Britain, 1780-1914

    by John Langton ...
    This atlas draws together crucial social and economic data on England, Scotland and Wales between 1780 and 1914, and gives a clear guide to the industrial development of Great Britain during the modern period. ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • This Great Calamity: The Great Irish Famine

    The Irish Famine 1845-52

    by Christime Kinealy ...
    The Great Famine of 1845-52 was the most decisive event in the history of modern Ireland. In a country of eight million people, the Famine caused the death of approximately one million, while a similar number were forced to emigrate. The Irish population fell to just over four million by the beginning of the twentieth century.Christine Kinealy's survey is long established as the most complete, ... Read more

    $10.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 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

    $2.67 USD

  • The Road to Independence?

    Scotland since the Sixties

    by Murray Pittock ...
    Series series Contemporary Worlds
    Is the ‘United’ Kingdom really as united as its name might suggest? For many people in the UK, increasing nationalism in Scotland raises serious questions about what Britain is, and where its future lies. In The Road to Independence?, Murray Pittock not only gives an account of modern Scottish nationalism, but also explains what Scotland’s role in Britain has been historically, and why it has ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Newcastle The Biography

    by Bill Purdue ...
    Series series The Biography
    The story of the city of Newcastle, from its earliest origins in Roman Britain to the present day. Newcastle's history begins with Pons Aelius, a Roman bridge and fort to the eastern end of Hadrian's Wall. The town took its name from the 'new castle' built after the Norman conquest around which a settlement nestled for protection. Its position, as the guardian of the main eastern route between ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Lancashire and Cheshire from AD1540

    by C. B. Phillips ...
    Series series Regional History of England
    This series, fully illustrated with maps and half-tones, is written for general readers as well as the student. In illuminating the anonymous lives of our predecessors it will, when complete, substantially enrich our understanding of the many histories which together make up the history of England. This authoritative volume surveys the modern history of the counties of Lancashire, Merseyside, ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Landlords to London

    The Story of a Capital and Its Growth

    by Simon Jenkins ...
    Landlords to London was originally published in 1975, the first book by Simon Jenkins, later to be editor of the London Evening Standard and the Times, and in 2008 the Chairman on the National Trust. The book is a collective biography of the men who mapped out the metropolis of London as we see it today - also the story of the people of London, who have never sat idly by any argument over 'their' ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Industry, Trade and People in Ireland, 1650-1950: Essays in honour of W.H. Crawford

    by Brenda Collins, Philip Ollerenshaw, Trevor Parkhill ...
    Bill Crawford (W.H. Crawford) had played a key role in the development of Irish economic, social and regional history for over forty years. The essays in Industry, Trade and People in Ireland, 1650-1950 are testimony to his many spheres of influence - as teacher, archivist, curator, researcher and writer - and focus on the themes in which Bill himself has been most interested: the relations ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus