The Liverpool and Manchester Railway: An Operating History, Hardcover - Anthony Dawson

Much has been written about the Liverpool & Manchester Railway, especially how it came into being and the Rainhill Trials, but very little has been...

In-depth archival researchIllustrations: 40 colour & black and white illustrations, photographs, map drawings & artists' impressions

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This was the first occasion in history that a railway was constructed to support an army in war.Publisher: Pen & Sword Books LtdAuthor(s): Anthony ...

Anthony Dawson explores the history of the world's first wartime railway - The Grand Crimean Central Railway.

Telling the story of the pioneering engineers behind the locomotives that took part in the iconic Rainhill trials.Publisher: Amberley PublishingAut...

Anthony Dawson looks at some of the iconic, trailblazing locomotives that helped shape British railway history.

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DescriptionRocket is perhaps one of the best-known railway locomotives in history. Entered by George and Robert Stephenson and Henry Booth for the ...

An 'Irish Cuba' - on Britain's doorstep? This book studies perceptions of the Soviets' influence over Irish revolutionaries during the Cold War. Th...

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This book is an oral history of punk in Belfast from the mid-70s to the mid-80s. It reads a small number of interviews in close detail to place the...

Publisher: deCoubertin BooksNumber of pages: 400Publication date: 2017Dimensions: 198 x 253 x 33Cover type: HardbackEditor(s): Mark PlattRedescoper...

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This man and music asks two central questions: what can literature contribute to the art of composition, and how can music influence the writer? An...

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DescriptionFrom its origins as the Consular Guard of the French Republic, and as Napoleon's personal bodyguard, the Imperial Guard developed into a...

The fascinating history of LMR 57 Lion, the real locomotive featured in the cult film 'The Titfield Thunderbolt'.Publisher: Amberley PublishingAuth...

The first comprehensive, illustrated survey of public sculpture in Sussex, incorporating extensive research on individual works and their creators.

In July 1981 a series of street disturbances that took place in the Liverpool 8 area of the city put Liverpool at the forefront of events that also...

A history of the iconic Woodhead Route.

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Publisher: Stenlake PublishingAuthor(s): Anthony James RobinsonIllustration(s): 138 illustrationsNumber of pages: 184Collection: Reminiscence Serie...

Reducere. Jim was a South African railway inspector in the late 1800s who lost his legs in an accident while at work. Unable to perform all his tasks with hi...

Description'I'm working on a novel intended to express the feel of England in Edward III's time ... The fourteenth century of my novel will be main...

DescriptionBodily contrasts from the colour of hair, eyes and skin to the shape of faces and skeletons - allowed the English of the seventeenth and...

DescriptionThis collection of newly commissioned essays explores the extraordinary versatility of Renaissance tragedy and shows how it enables expl...

DescriptionAnthony Burgess draws upon an autobiographical episode to create Beard's Roman Women, the story of a man haunted by his first wife, pres...

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This book examines ecology and culture in the Carpathian Mountains, with a focus on Ukraine's Galician Hutsul region from 1848 to 1939.Publisher: L...

This book offers a broad sweep of 500 years of history in the light of three key themes: consumers and producers; beliefs and ideologies; and state...

First-hand accounts of the British cavalry from Waterloo to the First World War.Illustrations: 20 black and white illustrations

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Whether you are just starting out in the hobby of scenic railway modelling, or are more experienced and are revamping an existing layout, this volu...

A survey of the social and economic conditions and events that gave Liverpool a reputation for being the most crime-ridden place in the country in ...

DescriptionIn the popular imagination, art history remains steeped in outmoded notions of tradition, material value and elitism. How can we awaken,...

Reducere. DescriptionThe benchmark for US railroad operations, the Florida East Coast (FEC) Railway is often referred to by other American railroads as the b...

Reducere. Completed in 1938, the Trans-Iranian Railway connected Tehran to Iran's two major bodies of water: the Caspian Sea in the north and the Persian Gul...

Tells the story of the Cardiff Railway, a 6.5 mile branch to the docks opened in 1909 and that of the docks during the Second World War, when the b...

Good Historical Text, Newly Researched Information, Useful to Modellers, Good Selection of IllustrationsPublisher: Pen & Sword Books LtdAuthor(s): ...