Books written by Anthony Burton

Railway Empire: How the British Gave Railways to the World

A gentleman with the grand name of John Percy FitzPatrick appeared, claiming to have the concession for supplying all goods and provisions for the workforce but providing no written authority. Pauling waited until FitzPatrick had built ...
Development of Museums in Victorian Britain

... see Thomas Kelly, A History of Public Libraries in Great Britain 1845-1965, London: The Library Association, 1973, chapter 1. See also W. A. Munford, William Ewart, M.P. 1798-1869, Portrait of a Radical, Londonb: Grafton, 1960.
Tracing Your Shipbuilding Ancestors: A Guide For Family Historians

Her great-grandfather, Thomas Rogers, was born near Bodmin and the first reference to his working life is as a farm labourer. He moved on from there to train as a blacksmith. By 1862 he had moved to Stoke Damarel, a name that has all ...
Britain's Living Past: A Celebration of Britain's Surviving Traditional Cultural and Working Practices

But Cameron's company is currently constructing a giant. The Russian adventurer Fedor Konyukhov has already established a world record for a solo balloon flight around the world in just over 11 days. Now he has set his sights on ...
Silk, the Thread that Tied the World

... 72, 178 Lavoisier, Antoine, 152 Mauve, 154 Lawrence, Mo, 162 Mergenthaler, Ottmar, 91 Lee, William, 72 Messina, 64 Leeds, 133 Milan, 65 Leo X, 74 Milan, Duke of, 65 Lewis, Randy, 183 Molà, Luca, 65 Lilly, Alfred, 143 Montgolfier, ...
Steam Traction on the Road: From Trevithick to Sentinel: 150 Years of Design and Development

Robbins and Lawrence had built a brand new factory, complete with precision machine tools, many of them to their own design. With this in place, they were able to produce identical parts, which could then be assembled into finished ...
Rise & Fall of British Shipbuilding

22 Alexander Balmain Bruce, The Life of William Denny Shipbuilder, 1888. 23 James Napier to Govan workers, 14 July 1850, GMTA. 24 Letter dated 13 May 1863, GUA. 25 Quoted in E.J. Hobsbawm, Labouring Men, 1964.
Life on the Railway

Stephenson was not, however, the first engineer from the north-east to build a locomotive to serve a local colliery – that honour went to William Hedley – but he was the most important ...
Historys Most Dang Jobs Navvies

When work started on the Lancaster Canal, the company put adverts in the papers of all the major towns between Edinburgh and London. The value of a contract might be quite small. On the Oxford Canal, John Watts was paid £350 a mile for ...
Canal 250: The Story of Britain's Canals

This is the story of 250 years of history on those canals, and of the people who made and used them.
The Iron Men: The Workers Who Created the New Iron Age

The dock office at the entrance was designed by Philip Hardwick and given an imposing Tuscan portico and pediment that, in spite of its classical appearance, is also made out of cast iron. Today, part of the dock complex has a very ...
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.
Canal Mania: 200 Years of Britain's Waterways

A description of Britain's canal network and its history, with stories of the great engineers, and of the great enterprises whose prosperity was founded on the waterways system.
Guide to Britain's Working Past

Visitors get a full underground tour , following the steeply inclined seams and leaving to return to the open air along an old A restored narrowboat is one of the many level , dug in from the hillside early in floating exhibits at the ...
Thomas Telford: Master Builder of Roads and Canals

He was responsible for some of the great works of the age, such as the suspension bridge across the Menai Straits and the mighty Pontcysyllte aqueduct.
A Performer's Guide to Music of the Classical Period

The latest thinking on stylish performance presented in a clear, helpful and practical way. Includes chapters from leading experts on historical background, notation and interpretation, with specialist advice for keyboard,...
A Performer's Guide to Music of the Romantic Period

The latest thinking on stylish performance presented in a clear, helpful and practical way. Includes chapters from leading experts on historical background, notation and interpretation, with specialist advice for keyboard,...
The Grand Union Canal Walk

The Grand Union Canal Walk
Vision & Accident

This is an in-depth investigation of how the V&A Museum was first set up, how it worked and what it did, who took the decisions and why. It sets the...
Britain's Canals: Exploring their Architectural and Engineering Wonders

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 Worcester and Birmingham Canal, to the ...