This is the story of the men who built Britain's canals and railways – not the engineers and the administrators but the ones who provided the brawn and muscle

Mining is Britain's oldest industry, and this book follows the men and, in the past, women who spent their lives working underground. Since the New Stone Age va

The notions of labour, mobility and piety have a complex and intertwined relationship. Using ethnographic methods and a historical perspective, Temple Tracks cr

The labourers at the heart of this study built the canals and railways undertaken as public works by the colonial governments of British North America and the f

Canals hold a unique place in British culture, with associations of lazy summer afternoons, journeying through lush green countryside. But as Liz McIvor explain