Autor: John Hannavy

Scotland’s Heritage is a unique book. It combines John Hannavy’s stunning and original photography of Scotland with an engaging narrative on the country’s evolution from 4000 BC to the present day, u …

A picture can say a thousand words and the images caught on camera during the Victorian and Edwardian periods provide a fascinating insight into the lives of Britons during this time. Take a step bac …

By the time the first photographs were taken at war in the late 1840s, the idea that 'the camera cannot lie’ was already firmly embedded in the Victorian psyche. 'Truthful’ in a way the work of the w …

The Encyclopedia of Nineteenth-Century Photography is the first comprehensive encyclopedia of world photography up to the beginning of the twentieth century. It sets out to be the standard, definitiv …

The Encyclopedia of Nineteenth-Century Photography is the first comprehensive encyclopedia of world photography up to the beginning of the twentieth century. It sets out to be the standard, definitiv …

’In no other country in the world is there anything to match Britain’s love affair with the steam train; nowhere else are there so many preserved railways keeping the magic of steam alive.’In 1896, t …

Through a collection of coloured holiday photographs covering all the major and several minor resorts around England’s coast, linked to selected written commentaries from Charles Dickens and many oth …

The coastline of Victorian and Edwardian Britain provided beauty, entertainment and the venue for most people’s holidays. But it was also a thriving centre of industry shipbuilding and fishing, plus …

A picture can say a thousand words and the images caught on camera during the Victorian and Edwardian periods provide a fascinating insight into the lives of Britons during this time. Take a step bac …

Brings Scotland’s colourful past to life, snapshots of life, work and play in Edwardian and Victorian Scotland An entertaining and valuable historical and social record …

This volume of original and historic photographs captures the story of the ingenious bridges that carried us from the Victorian era into modern times.With their moveable platforms designed to travers …

This volume of original and historic photographs captures the story of the ingenious bridges that carried us from the Victorian era into modern times.With their moveable platforms designed to travers …

This volume of original and historic photographs captures the story of the ingenious bridges that carried us from the Victorian era into modern times.With their moveable platforms designed to travers …

The coastline of Victorian and Edwardian Britain provided beauty, entertainment and the venue for most people’s holidays. But it was also a thriving centre of industry shipbuilding and fishing, plus …

By the time the first photographs were taken at war in the late 1840s, the idea that 'the camera cannot lie’ was already firmly embedded in the Victorian psyche. 'Truthful’ in a way the work of the w …

A history of the creation and evolution of the mechanism that brought precision to the steam power and changed the world. Power without control is unusable power, and long after the invention of the …