Explores the fierce geo-political struggle behind the heroic vision of the canal, and the immense engineering and medical battles that were fought. Using diaries, memoirs, newspapers and private letters, this work weaves in the stories of the ordinary men and women who worked on the canal and their everyday life on the construction.
Explores the fierce geo-political struggle behind the heroic vision of the canal, and the immense engineering and medical battles that were fought. Us...
At the beginning of the 1650s, England was in ruins - wrecked by plague and civil war. Yet shimmering on the horizon was a vision of paradise: Willoughbyland. This book fetures an untold story of Willoughbyland's spectacular rise and fall, set at a pivotal moment in British and world history.
At the beginning of the 1650s, England was in ruins - wrecked by plague and civil war. Yet shimmering on the horizon was a vision of paradise: Willoug...
