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Author : Jean Olivia Lindsay
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Industrial railways
ISBN : LCCN:10050299
Author : David Gwyn
Publisher : RCAHMW
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2015-05-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781871184556
Slates from quarries in Wales once went to roof the world. By the late nineteenth century as many as a third of all the roofing slates produced worldwide came from Wales, competing with quarries in France and the United States. This book traces the industry from its origins in the Roman period, its slow medieval development and then its massive expansion in the nineteenth century – as well as through its long drawn-out decline in the twentieth.
Author : Howard L. Malchow
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0804718075
A Stanford University Press classic.
Author : Anthony Coulls
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2019-07-15
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781445691060
For thousands of years slate has been quarried in Britain, but in Victorian times it became big business, and the legacy of the industry now shapes the landscape of North Wales, especially.
Author : Eleanor Casella,Industrial Heritage Support Officer for England Michael Nevell,Michael Nevell,Hanna Steyne
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 769 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2022-04-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780199693962
Through international and multi-period chapters, this volume explores the origins and development of industrialisation from its emergence in 18th century Europe to its contemporary ubiquity. It interrogates the widespread exploitation of natural resources that forged industrialisation and its environmental and social legacy in our globalised world.
Author : Pat Hudson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1989-10-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780521341066
In this book a team of distinguished historians contend that industrialization in Britain (and elsewhere) occurred first and foremost within regions rather than in the nation as a whole.
Author : Reg Chambers Jones
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Dinorwic Quarry (Wales)
ISBN : 1844940330
The Dinorwic Quarry at Llanberis, now the home of the National Slate Museum and the Electric Mountain Visitor Centre, was once one of the largest slate quarries in the world. Today, the scars of the terraces on the side of the Elidir Fach and Elidir Fawr, along with the tips of slate waste, are silent testimony to the industrialisation of this beautiful north Wales valley. Once employing thousands of men, the quarry was the major source of income for many communities, not only in the shadow of the mountain itself, but as far away as the east cost of the Isle of Anglesey from where many workmen travelled by boat and train every weekend to live in the spartan conditions of the quarry barracks. Slate quarrymen were a special breed of highly skilled workers who laboured in what would now be seen as appalling conditions in the face of the prevailing elements, forever running the risk of death, ill-health and serious injury.
Author : John Chapple
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 524 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1997-06-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0719025508
This absorbing study of Elizabeth Gaskell's early life up to her marriage in 1832 is based almost entirely on new evidence. Also, using parish records, marriage settlements, property transfers, wills, record office documents, letters, journals and private papers, John Chapple has recreated the background of one of the nineteenth century's greatest novelists.
Author : Edward John T. Collins,Joan Thirsk
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 1362 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Agriculture
ISBN : 0521329272
Author : Kenneth Hudson
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1984-11-22
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0521253330
This is the first book to explore the exceptional opportunities offered by aerial photography for unravelling the physical complexities and historical development of the industrial landscape of Britain. A wide range of industrial sites is illustrated - from quarries, mines and car factories to airports, railways and New Towns. The general nature and significance of their history and development is discussed while the detailed commentaries accompanying each photograph indicate the kind of historical and technical information which cannot be easily obtained in any other way. There is good geographic coverage of sites, with examples from England, Wales and Scotland, drawn from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries. Through a combination of fascinating narrative detail and imaginative presentation of photographic evidence, this book provides a unique insight into our industrial past and present.
Author : Francis Goodall,Terry Gourvish,Steven Tolliday
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 685 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2013-12-16
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781136138201
The field of business history has changed and grown dramatically over the last few years. There is less interest in the traditional `company-centred' approach and more concern about the wider business context. With the growth of multi-national corporations in the 1980s, international and inter-firm comparisons have gained in importance. In addition, there has been a move towards improving links with mainstream economic, financial and social history through techniques and outlook. The International Bibliography of Business History brings all of the strands together and provides the user with a comprehensive guide to the literature in the field. The Bibliography is a unique volume which covers the depth and breadth of research in business history. This exhaustive volume has been compiled by a team of subject specialists from around the world under the editorship of three prestigious business historians.
Author : John Rowlands,Sheila Rowlands
Publisher : Genealogical Publishing Com
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Reference
ISBN : 0806316195
Anyone who has had any success in researching their Welsh ancestry will know that a grasp of specialized Welsh genealogical methods and sources is only one of several factors that contributed to that success. They will know, for example, how important it is in Welsh research to have some understanding of the social, cultural, religious, and economic background of the communities in which those ancestors lived. This book attempts to broaden that understanding, especially for the period prior to 1800 when most researchers begin to experience difficulties. In addition, it aims to make readers more aware of some little-known sources and the special uses that may be applied to the information found in these sources.
Author : Joel Mokyr
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 2812 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2003-10-16
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780190282998
What were the economic roots of modern industrialism? Were labor unions ever effective in raising workers' living standards? Did high levels of taxation in the past normally lead to economic decline? These and similar questions profoundly inform a wide range of intertwined social issues whose complexity, scope, and depth become fully evident in the Encyclopedia. Due to the interdisciplinary nature of the field, the Encyclopedia is divided not only by chronological and geographic boundaries, but also by related subfields such as agricultural history, demographic history, business history, and the histories of technology, migration, and transportation. The articles, all written and signed by international contributors, include scholars from Europe, Latin America, Africa, and Asia. Covering economic history in all areas of the world and segments of ecnomies from prehistoric times to the present, The Oxford Encyclopedia of Economic History is the ideal resource for students, economists, and general readers, offering a unique glimpse into this integral part of world history.
Author : W. J. Milner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2007-11
Category : Ceiriog Valley (Wales)
ISBN : 1900622114
A detailed history of the slate industry of the Ceiriog Valley in north-east Wales from 1965-1948, with a look at the social life in the Valley and the influence that it had on the building of the Glyn Valley Tramway.
Author : Kenneth O. Morgan
Publisher : Oxford : Clarendon Press
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Wales
ISBN : 0198217366
A wide-ranging and comprehensive analysis of modern Welsh history by the acclaimed historian Kenneth O. Morgan. Taking as its starting-point 1880, the book covers all aspects of the nation's history from political, social, economic and religious development to literary, intellectual, and sporting achievement.