Bøger af Anthony Burton

New Full Detailed Biography

Since it opened in 2003 Hadrian' s Wall Path has become one of Britain' s most popular long-distance paths.

The First World War is famous for the unprecedented loss of life on a global scale; On a social level, working Britain experienced change as well: with the men at war, it fell to the women of the country to keep the factories going, challenging preconceptions as they did.

Mining is Britain's oldest industry, and this book follows the men and, in the past, women who spent their lives working underground. This story is also one of invention and innovation, looking particularly at how the independent miners of Cornwall and Devon were at the forefront of the development of the steam engine that was to transform society.

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.

Anatomy of canals Volume 1

This books takes us from the original construction of the canal network through to the conservation and leisure uses of today.

A history of the anatomy of canals