Anthony Burton: 21 books
Tracing Your Shipbuilding Ancestors
A Guide For Family Historians
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2010
Anthony Burton's concise and informative guide to British shipbuilding will be absorbing reading for anyone who wants to learn about its history or find out about the life of a shipbuilder and his family. In a clear and accessible way he traces its development from the medieval period to its peak...
by Anthony Burton
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
The story of British classical music extends over more than a thousand years. A distinctive national tone was identifiable already in medieval times, and in the fifteenth century Dunstable was a leading international figure. The Renaissance saw the emergence of great composers such as Tallis, Byrd and...
Crafted in Britain
The Survival of Britain's Traditional Industries
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2017
Crafted in Britain is a celebration of Britain's traditional crafts and industries that have survived into the modern world, not as museums but on their merits. In an age of increasing automation and standardisation, it is a joy to find such places, where craftsmanship and personal skills are still...
by Anthony Burton
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2017
Anthony Burton has traveled from the Highlands of Scotland, to the south west of England in pursuit of his passion for the steam engine in all its different forms. He has traveled on narrow gauge railways in Wales and enjoyed the splendor of main line journeys behind some of the grandest locomotives...
Workers' War
British Industry and the First World War
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2014
World War I: famous for the unprecedented loss of life on a global scale that affected the world forever. However, it wasn't only in terms of bloodshed that the war rocked the nation, but also with its effect on the industrial integrity of Britain. This was a war not just of fighting, but of technological...
Britain's Living Past
A Celebration of Britain's Surviving Traditional Cultural and Working Practices
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2019
Britain's Living Past is a celebration of the best of the past, of things that have been preserved because they still matter to the community. It is a book in which the emphasis is very much on the word 'living'; looking at traditions, pastimes and working practices, some centuries old, that survive...
Joseph Locke
Civil Engineer and Railway Builder 1805 - 1860
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
Most historians recognize the work of three engineers as being the men who developed the railways from slow, lumbering colliery lines into fast, inter-city routes. Two are very well known: Robert Stephenson and Isambard Kingdom Brunel. The third was Joseph Locke, who should be recognized for having...
by Anthony Burton
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2012
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....
by Anthony Burton
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
This is the story of how, from modest beginnings, Britain rose throughout the 19th century to become the greatest shipbuilding nation in the world. It begins with the age of sail, then moves on to the days of iron- hulled steamers. It shows how conflicts arose between the traditional shipwrights and...
Matthew Boulton
Industry's Great Innovator
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2012
Without Boulton, James Watt would probably have failed to bring his steam engine to market. By the time of their partnership Boulton was already a successful industrialist manufacturing a range of silver and plated goods, buttons and buckles and the sort of knicknackery known in the 18th century as...
by Anthony Burton
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
Mining is Britain’s oldest industry, and this book follows the men and, in the past, women who spent their lives working underground. Since the New Stone Age various minerals have been wrested from British soil – copper, tin, gold, lead – but in later periods the key commodity was coal. Those...
Railway Empire
How the British Gave Railways to the World
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2018
The British were at the forefront of railway development for the first fifty years of the nineteenth century.
Railway Empire tells the story of how the British gave railways to the world, not only in the empire, but also in other countries outside areas of direct influence.
It is often...
Canal 250
The Story of Britain's Canals
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2011
When a young English nobleman was thwarted in love, he abandoned the court, retired to his estate near Manchester, and built a canal to serve his coalmines. The Bridgewater Canal was the sensation of the age and led others to follow the example of the enterprising Duke of Bridgewater. Over the next...
Iron Men
The Workers Who Created the New Iron Age
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2015
This is the story of how a change in how iron was made in the 18th century changed the world forever, and of the men and women who made it happen. The production of iron around 700BC was so important that it was called the Iron Age. This was the second Iron Age. Iron made the machines of the industrial...
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