The motor makers: The turbulent history of Britain's car industry

Business & Money

Adeney, Martin

Industries

Collins

A popular history of the making of motor cars in Britain from before World War I, through the mass production between the wars, to the successes and failures since 1945. It traces the fortunes of the major manufacturers, and relates the fluctuations of the car industry to Britain as a whole. Martin Adeney is the Industrial Editor of BBC Television News, and has previously been industrial correspondent for "The Sunday Telegraph" and labour correspondent for "The Guardian".

The Motor Makers: The Turbulent History of Britain's Car Industry

Economics

HarperCollins, Publishers

Written from primary sources, this is a biography of William Morris, Lord Nuffield. It examines Nuffield's rise from backyard bicycle repairer to Britain's leading motor manufacturer, his frustrated political ambitions and flirtation with fascism, as well as his idiosyncratic personal life and the motives behind his charitable giving.

Nuffield: A Biography

Robert Hale, Ltd.

The Miners' Strike, 1984–5: Loss Without Limit (Routledge Library Editions: Political Protest)

The Miners' Strike, 1984–5 (Routledge Library Editions: Political Protest)

Politics & Social Sciences

LLoyd, John

Sociology

Routledge

<p><p>This book, first published in 1986, examines the miners' strike of 1984-5 - an event that formed the decisive break with a forty-year-old British tradition of political and industrial compromise. The stakes for the main parties were so high that the price each was willing to pay, the loss each was willing to sustain, exceeded anything seen in an industrial dispute in half a century. This book examines and assesses the strike's full implications, and puts it into its historical and political context.</p></p>

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