From modest beginnings, Britain rose throughout the nineteenth century to become the greatest shi...

'Sound and solid case studies on vulnerability and adaptation have been woefully lacking in the i...

'Sound and solid case studies on vulnerability and adaptation have been woefully lacking in the i...

Mill towns sprung up around the centres of the textile industry from the 18th century. This is...

The First World War is famous for the unprecedented loss of life on a global scale; it was a conf...

Mining is Britain's oldest industry, and this book follows the men and, in the past, women who sp...

'Sound and solid case studies on vulnerability and adaptation have been woefully lacking in the i...

This volume examines the ways in which Shakespeare’s plays are designed for hea...

The story of British classical music extends over more than a thousand years. A distinctive natio...

'Sound and solid case studies on vulnerability and adaptation have been woefully lacking in the i...

This is a new introduction for readers who wish to know more about the science that is chang...

This is the story of the men who built Britain's canals and railways - not the engineers and the ...