Böcker av Geoff Marshall

A rich and detailed look at the industrial history of the Black Country, paying particular focus on the 19th Century. The Making of the Black Country centres on the four Metropolitan District Council areas of Dudley, Sandwell, Walsall and Wolverhampton that make up the Black Country and examines its history and heritage.

The Anglo-Saxons held sway in this country from the time the Romans departed until the Norman Conquest; a period of over 600 years, in other words the same length of time from the present day back to late medieval England of the War of the Roses. By any standard, a considerable period.

The development of London Docklands from the medieval era to the construction of the largest system of docks in the world, and into the modern landscape today

A comprehensive history of Walsall, 'the town of 100 trades'.

Did you know that apart from Lancashire, the greatest concentration of Boulton & Watt steam engines was in London, demonstrating the enormous and often overlooked significance of London as an industrial centre? Joseph Bramah invented his water closet and hydraulic pump here, and Henry Maudslay made machines to make machines.