Britains Industrial Heritage

In this book, the author focuses on the golden age of British industry, from the 18th to the 21st centuries. Featuring canals, mining, iron and steel, railways, shipbuilding and shipping, manufacturing and road transport, and with a comprehensive gazetteer of the principal sites open to the public, this handy-sized pocket guide is the ideal companion in exploring the rich heritage of Britain's glorious industrial past.

Accompanying the television series, Fred Dibnah tells Britain's industrial history and picks out the machinery that made history. Travelling throughout Britain, Dibnah describes what life was really like for people in the industrial age and provides a list of industrial heritage sites to visit.

First published in 1987, The Heritage Industry sets out to protect the present and the future of life in Britain from their most dangerous enemy: a creeping takeover by the past. The author sets today’s obsession with yesterday in the context of a climate of social and political decline. The economic uncertainties and cultural convulsions of post-war life have made the past seem a pleasanter and safer place. But how true is that image of the past, and whose past is it, anyway? Hewison questions the way institutions like the National Trust are helping to create a past that never was. While the real economy crumbles, a new force is taking over: the Heritage Industry, a movement dedicated to turning the British Isles into one vast open-air museum. This book will be of interest to students of history, art and cultural studies.

This important new book endeavors to explain the industrial revolution throughout the British Isles.