Imperial Chemical Industries: A history

Reader, W.J.

Oxford U.P.

The Weir group: A centenary history

Weidenfeld

A discussion of the 19th century describing the country and city life of both the poor and middle class

Life in Victorian England

Travel

Europe

Putnam 1964, 3rd Printing 1967

<p>This lively historical biography of J.L. McAdam and his male descendants offers an informative and, at times, dramatic view of the construction of turnpike roads at the height of the coaching age. McAdam (1756-1836) is best known for a method of building roads which brought the word 'macadam' into the language, meaning a hard, smooth surface over which carriages and wagons could travel as fast as horses could be made to draw them. A great pioneer, McAdam introduced modern methods of professional management into the turnpike trusts and effectively lobbied peers, MPs and other influential public men in support of his ideas. It was his misfortune that macadamized roads were quickly rendered obsolete by the development of railways. Three sons, four grandsons and assorted other relations were involved in publicising McAdam's methods and putting them energetically into practice; their influence was widespread throughout England, Wales and Scotland. Over 100 miles of roads and streets in London were greatly improved by J.L. McAdam's second son, Sir James McAdam. This colourful account lifts the McAdams from relative obscurity and fills a gap in the studies of the Industrial Revolution. W.J. Reader was educated at Taunton School and Jesus College, Cambridge, where he was a scholar. After serving with the Royal Signals during the Second World War, he worked as research assistant to C.H. Wilson (later Professor of Modern History at Cambridge) on his history of Unilever. From 195o-65 he worked for Unilever in advertising, market research and public relations. Since 1965, Dr Reader has been a freelance historian, and has written books on a variety of topics, including life in Victorian England, the rise of the professional classes, a study of volunteer enlistment during the Great War, and histories of ICI, Metal Box and Unilever. He is currently working on a history of the Bowater Corporation.</p>

MacAdam: The McAdam Family and the Turnpike Roads 1798-1861

William Heinemann

The history of the Bowater Company, under Sir Eric Vansittart Bowater. The company is traced from its beginnings as a newsprint company in Great Britain, to the giant North American manufacturing and trading enterprise it became.

Bowater: A History

History

World

Cambridge University Press

Phillips & Drew was one of the pioneering fi rms of investment analysis, and for many years enjoyed an un rivalled reputation for the quality of its research. This bo ok charts the history of the firm. '

Phillips and Drew: Professionals in the City

Business & Money

KYNASTON, David

Economics

Robert Hale, Ltd.

Victorian England

G.P.Putnam's Sons

A house in the city: A study of the City and of the Stock Exchange based on the records of Foster & Braithwaite, 1825-1975

Batsford Ltd.

<p>1988 Manchester University Press. ISBN 0-7190-2395-5. Hardcover. Octavo, 152pp., cloth. Fine in VG DJ.</p>

At Duty's Call: A Study in Obsolete Patriotism (Studies in Imperialism)

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Manchester Univ Pr

The Victorian private solider was a despised figure. A working man had to be desperate indeed to take the Queen's shilling. Yet in the first sixteen months of the Great War two and a half million men from the UK and many more from the empire, flocked to the colours - without any form of legal compulsion. There had never been a volunteer army like it. It seems to say there never will be again.What was in the air of England in the generation or so before 1914 to bring about such collective exultation? How did it come about that, in a society which - in oft proclaimed contrast to Germany - rejected conscription and prided itself on having no taint of militarism, men could be induced to volunteer in such numbers? The nation's general state of mind, system of values and set of attitudes derived largely from the upper middle class, which had emerged and become dominant during the nineteenth century. The book examines the phenomenon of 1914 and the views held by people of that class, since it was under their leadership that the country went to war.

'At Duty's Call': A study in obsolete patriotism (Studies in Imperialism, 5)

Manchester University Press

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