In the nineteenth century London was the most important city in the world, the capital of an empire 'on which the sun never set.' This was the golden age of rai

This 1954 volume explores trends in the distributive trades in the United Kingdom from 1850-1950.

This study offers an analysis of the technological and entrepreneurial features of the Victorian telegraph service, together with the companies which ran it unt

This book examines the industrial monuments of twentieth- century Britain. Each chapter takes a specific theme and examines it in the context of the buildings a