ANTHONY BURTON is an author specialising in the history of technology and transport. His books for The History Press include The Anatomy of Canals, The Iron Men, Miners, Navvies, and The Workers’ War. Other books include biographies of Thomas Telford, Richard Trevithick, George and Robert Stephenson and Marc and Isambard Brunel. He has been involved in over 100 TV documentaries, half as writer/presenter and others as historical adviser, including The Past at Work for the BBC and appeared as a guest expert on Coast, Reel History and Big, Bigger, Biggest. More recently he has been Historical Adviser for six ten-part series for Discovery that have involved visiting industrial sites in both Europe and America. He lives in Stroud.
53 Ebooks par Anthony Burton
Anthony Burton: The Workers’ War
The First World War is famous for the unprecedented loss of life on a global scale; it was a conflict that affected the world forever. However, it wasn’t only in terms of bloodshed that the war rocke …
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€18.49
Anthony Burton: The Iron Men
The eighteenth century saw the second Iron Age. Practically everything was made of iron: the machines of the Industrial Revolution; bridges and the ships that went under them; the trains running on t …
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€13.99
Anthony Burton: History’s Most Dangerous Jobs: Navvies
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 t …
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Anthony Burton: History’s Most Dangerous Jobs: Miners
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 B …
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€9.99
Anthony Burton: The Rise and Fall of British Shipbuilding
From modest beginnings, Britain rose throughout the nineteenth century to become the greatest shipbuilding nation in the world, yet by the end of the following century the British merchant fleet rank …
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€13.99
Anthony Burton: Life in the Mill
For centuries, most textile manufacturing relied on people working in their own homes. All that changed in 1761 when Richard Arkwright began construction of the first water-powered cotton mill in Der …
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Anthony Burton: Canal 250
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 t …
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Walter W. Cannon & Laury Magnus: Who Hears in Shakespeare?
This volume, examining the ways in which Shakespeare’s plays are designed for hearers as well as spectators, has been prompted by recent explorations of the auditory dimension of early modern drama b …
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€120.70
Anthony Burton & John Scott-Morgan: Light Railways of Britain & Ireland
First published in 1985 by Moorland Press, The Light Railways of Britain & Ireland has remained unavailable for more than twenty-five years, until now. Re-released by Pen & Sword, this is a thorough …
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€12.85
Anthony Burton: Steam Engine Pilgrimage
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 rai …
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Anthony Burton: Canal Pioneers
This is the story of canals used for transport and the men who built them from the earliest times, up to the end of the ninteenth century. This is a very long history: stones for the pyramids of Egyp …
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€12.84
Anthony Burton: Thomas Telford
Thomas Telford’s life was extraordinary: born in the Lowlands of Scotland, where his father worked as a shepherd, he ended his days as the most revered engineer in the world, known punningly as The C …
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€6.35
Anthony Burton: Thomas Telford
Thomas Telford’s life was extraordinary: born in the Lowlands of Scotland, where his father worked as a shepherd, he ended his days as the most revered engineer in the world, known punningly as The C …
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€6.39
Anthony Burton: Locomotive Pioneers
This fascinating book explores the development of locomotives over the course of fifty years. From Richard Trevithick’s first experimental road engine of 1801 up to the Great Exhibition some fifty ye …
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€12.74
Anthony Burton: Locomotive Pioneers
This fascinating book explores the development of locomotives over the course of fifty years. From Richard Trevithick’s first experimental road engine of 1801 up to the Great Exhibition some fifty ye …
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€12.85
Anthony Burton: Railway Empire
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 …
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€12.86
Anthony Burton: Railway Empire
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 …
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€12.80
Anthony Burton: Joseph Locke
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 Ste …
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Anthony Burton: Joseph Locke
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 Ste …
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€6.41
Anthony Burton: Around Britain by Canal
This is the story of a thousand mile-long trip around England by canal. At times the journey took the author out into the beautiful countryside, and elsewhere the canal crept round the edge of old in …
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€12.79
Anthony Burton: Around Britain by Canal
This is the story of a thousand mile-long trip around England by canal. At times the journey took the author out into the beautiful countryside, and elsewhere the canal crept round the edge of old in …
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€11.50
Anthony Burton: Steam Traction on the Road
This is the story of how for more than a hundred years steam power played a vital role in the development of road transport. It all began with tentative attempts to build steam carriages by pioneers …
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€11.55
Anthony Burton: Steam Traction on the Road
This is the story of how for more than a hundred years steam power played a vital role in the development of road transport. It all began with tentative attempts to build steam carriages by pioneers …
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€11.61
Anthony Burton: Story of British Classical Music
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 lead …
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€5.78
Burton Anthony Burton & Scott Rob Scott: Crafted in Britain
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 …
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€22.43
Anthony Burton & Mr Rob Scott: Britain »s Living Past
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 …
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€27.09
Burton Anthony Burton & Pratt Derek Pratt: Britain’s Canals
Britain’s Canals is a charming and insightful exploration into the amazing architecture and engineering wonders that surround Britain’s inland waterways from the awe-inspiring 30-lock flight on the W …
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€19.44
Anthony Burton: Canal Builders
Canal Builders is a classic history book for anyone interested in the development of Britain’s canal system. The book, which was first published in the 1970s, is now republished here in a new fifth e …
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€12.85
Anthony Burton: Tracing Your Shipbuilding Ancestors
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 fa …
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€5.08
Anthony Burton: Great Western Society
This chronicle of one of England’s most popular railway museums tells the remarkable story of four friends who turned their boyhood dream into reality. Located in the Didcot Railway Centre in Oxfords …
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€11.61
Anthony Burton: George & Robert Stephenson
A dual biography of the father and son railroad engineers who revolutionized Victorian transportation and reshaped modern British life.Engineer and inventor George Stephenson is known as the Father o …
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€19.25
Anthony Burton: George & Robert Stephenson
A dual biography of the father and son railroad engineers who revolutionized Victorian transportation and reshaped modern British life.Engineer and inventor George Stephenson is known as the Father o …
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€19.27
Anthony Burton: Mines and Miners of Cornwall and Devon
The eminent historian and author of The Rise of King Cotton uncovers the centuries-old story of tin mining in Southern England.Tin mining has existed in Cornwall and parts of Devon since before the R …
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€19.19
Anthony Burton: Ten Engineers Who Made Britain Great
Samuel Smiles published Lives of the Engineers in 1862. The noted biographer presented his engineers as heroic progress makers who conquered nature and overcame impossible obstacles to drive the Indu …
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€13.99
Anthony Burton: Great Western Society
This chronicle of one of England’s most popular railway museums tells the remarkable story of four friends who turned their boyhood dream into reality. Located in the Didcot Railway Cent …
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€11.55
Anthony Burton: Balloons and Airships
“Looks at the brave (and sometimes foolish) men and women who were responsible for . . . the development of manned flight” (History of War). This book tells the often dra …
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€6.42
Anthony Burton: Balloons and Airships
‘;Looks at the brave (and sometimes foolish) men and women who were responsible for … the development of manned flight’ (History of War). This book tells the often dramatic and always fascinating s …
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€6.37
Anthony Burton: Josiah Wedgwood
The story of the innovative genius who became pottery maker to royalty—and to the world: “You don't have to know a glaze from a slip to enjoy this.” —Kirkus Reviews …
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€6.43
Anthony Burton: Josiah Wedgwood
The story of the innovative genius who became pottery maker to royaltyand to the world: ‘;You dont have to know a glaze from a slip to enjoy this.’ Kirkus Reviews Born in Staffordshire, England, to a …
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€6.41
Anthony Burton: Mines and Miners of Cornwall and Devon
The eminent historian and author of The Rise of King Cotton uncovers the centuries-old story of tin mining in Southern England.Tin mining has existed in Cornwall and parts of Devon since before the R …
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€19.32
Anthony Burton: London’s Transport From Roman Times to the Present Day
Transport systems are the lifeblood of all great cities and this is certainly true of London. As far back as Roman times, their city Londinium was the hub of a network of roads leading out to all the …
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€12.80
Anthony Burton: Maritime London
The book looks at London’s maritime history from the establishment of Roman Londinium to the present day. It discusses many different aspects of life on the Thames and its connecting waterways and ca …
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€12.81
Anthony Burton: Tracing Your Shipbuilding Ancestors
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 fa …
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€5.14
Anthony Burton: Around Britain by Canal
This is the story of a thousand mile-long trip around England by canal. At times the journey took the author out into the beautiful countryside, and elsewhere the canal crept round the edge of old in …
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€11.51
Anthony Burton: George & Robert Stephenson
A dual biography of the father and son railroad engineers who revolutionized Victorian transportation and reshaped modern British life.Engineer and inventor George Stephenson is known as the Father o …
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€19.33
Anthony Burton: Mines and Miners of Cornwall and Devon
The eminent historian and author of The Rise of King Cotton uncovers the centuries-old story of tin mining in Southern England.Tin mining has existed in Cornwall and parts of Devon since before the R …
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€19.05
Anthony Burton: Brunels
Isambard Kingdom Brunel has always been regarded as one of Britain’s great heroes and an engineering genius. His father Marc Brunel has not received the same degree of adulation, but this book will s …
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€8.96
Anthony Burton & Mr Rob Scott: Britain »s Living Past
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 …
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€27.02
Anthony Burton: Locomotive Pioneers
This fascinating book explores the development of locomotives over the course of fifty years. From Richard Trevithick’s first experimental road engine of 1801 up to the Great Exhibition some fifty ye …
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€12.87
Anthony Burton: London’s Transport From Roman Times to the Present Day
Transport systems are the lifeblood of all great cities and this is certainly true of London. As far back as Roman times, their city Londinium was the hub of a network of roads leading out to all the …
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€12.86
Anthony Burton: Maritime London
The book looks at London’s maritime history from the establishment of Roman Londinium to the present day. It discusses many different aspects of life on the Thames and its connecting waterways and ca …
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€12.73
Anthony Burton: Silk, the Thread that Tied the World
Over a thousand years ago the Chinese discovered that the slender filaments that formed the cocoon of the silk moth, could be woven into beautiful shimmering fabrics. For centuries they were able to …
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€27.07
Anthony Burton: Brunels
Isambard Kingdom Brunel has always been regarded as one of Britain’s great heroes and an engineering genius. His father Marc Brunel has not received the same degree of adulation, but this book will s …
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€8.88
