What day-to-day life was like for those who traveled and worked on the world’s first intercity railway in early nineteenth-century England. Much has been writ

A concise history of the Northern English city from its Roman origins to today’s metropolitan hub. In The Making of Manchester, author Mike Fletcher shows how

“A comprehensive and detailed history the railway and development from tram road to the modern era. . . . A must read” (The Newcomen Society Western Courier

Week after week, the guns of the British expeditionary force battered away at the defences of Sevastopol, eight miles away from Balaklava, the port through whic

This is the first history of the British railway system written from a modern economic perspective. It uses conterfactual analysis to construct an alternative n