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The Life of Richard Cadbury
Socialist, Philanthropist & Chocolatier
Price: $24.95
ISBN: 9781526768292
Pub Date: 2025-03-31
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Pen and Sword History
192 Pages
In 1824, John Cadbury opened a grocer’s shop in Bull Street in Birmingham and started to sell tea, coffee and drinking chocolate alongside everything else. In 1831, he opened a factory and started...
Lady Charlotte Guest
The Exceptional Life of a Female Industrialist
Price: $38.95
ISBN: 9781526799661
Pub Date: 2024-08-31
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Pen and Sword History
224 Pages
When impoverished aristocrat Lady Charlotte Bertie married wealthy Welsh ironmaster John Guest of Dowlais in 1833, her relatives looked on with dismay. Yet despite their vast difference of background...
Aer Dogs
Price: $25.00
ISBN: 9781913934477
Pub Date: 2024-06-30
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Wordwell Books
288 Pages
This is the story of a small team of Irish trailblazers who made low-cost air travel available to billions of people across Europe, Asia, North America and Latin America. It is a story that traces its...
Beeching
Price: $12.99
ISBN: 9781911703228
Pub Date: 2024-04-01
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Mortons Media
132 Pages
Described as the most hated civil servant in Britain, it was 60 years ago that Dr Richard Beeching was appointed as chairman of British Railways with one key directive - to cut the soaring losses.
Pit Lasses
Women and Girls in Coalmining c.1800–1914
Price: $26.95
ISBN: 9781399078023
Pub Date: 2024-02-22
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Pen and Sword History
192 Pages
Women have long been recognized as the backbone of coalmining communities, supporting their men. Less well known is the role which they played as the industry developed, working underground alongside...
From Bicycle to Bentley
A Bookmaker's Story
Price: $39.95
ISBN: 9781036101930
Pub Date: 2023-11-23
Format: Hardcover
Imprint: White Owl
Stephen takes the reader from his earliest school days when it became clear he was academically bright, especially in math, attending prep school, winning a scholarship to major public school Uppingham...
Gresley's Master Engineer, Bert Spencer
A Career in Railway Engineering and Design
Price: $52.95
ISBN: 9781399045070
Pub Date: 2023-11-23
Format: Hardcover
Imprint: Pen and Sword Transport
240 Pages
The great and the good rarely, if ever, accomplish all they wish to achieve without the able assistance of many skilled men and women. To have a very capable person beside you acting as guide, confidant...
William Adams: His Life and Locomotives
A Life in Engineering 1823-1904
Price: $49.95
ISBN: 9781399071963
Pub Date: 2023-11-23
Format: Hardcover
Imprint: Pen and Sword Transport
224 Pages
William Adams (1823 – 1904) is probably best known from his locomotive designs for the London & South Western Railway. The years at Nine Elms were the culmination of career which began formally...
The Life of Richard Cadbury
Socialist, Philanthropist & Chocolatier
Price: $24.95
ISBN: 9781526768292
Pub Date: 2025-03-31
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Pen and Sword History
192 Pages
Lady Charlotte Guest
The Exceptional Life of a Female Industrialist
Price: $38.95
ISBN: 9781526799661
Pub Date: 2024-08-31
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Pen and Sword History
224 Pages
Aer Dogs
Price: $25.00
ISBN: 9781913934477
Pub Date: 2024-06-30
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Wordwell Books
288 Pages
Beeching
Price: $12.99
ISBN: 9781911703228
Pub Date: 2024-04-01
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Mortons Media
132 Pages
Pit Lasses
Women and Girls in Coalmining c.1800–1914
Price: $26.95
ISBN: 9781399078023
Pub Date: 2024-02-22
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Pen and Sword History
192 Pages
From Bicycle to Bentley
A Bookmaker's Story
Price: $39.95
ISBN: 9781036101930
Pub Date: 2023-11-23
Format: Hardcover
Imprint: White Owl
Gresley's Master Engineer, Bert Spencer
A Career in Railway Engineering and Design
Price: $52.95
ISBN: 9781399045070
Pub Date: 2023-11-23
Format: Hardcover
Imprint: Pen and Sword Transport
240 Pages
William Adams: His Life and Locomotives
A Life in Engineering 1823-1904
Price: $49.95
ISBN: 9781399071963
Pub Date: 2023-11-23
Format: Hardcover
Imprint: Pen and Sword Transport
224 Pages