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Showing posts with label The Transport Revolution: Canals. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The Transport Revolution: Canals. Show all posts

Thursday, November 06, 2014

Don Chiswell-History Lectures, The Transport Revolution: Canals, Roads and Railways 1750-1850

The Transport Revolution: Canals, Roads and Railways 1750-1850

Wed 17 Dec 7.30pm

In a little over a hundred years the building of canals, roads and railways by the engineers such as Brindley, Metcal, Macadam, Telford, the Stephensons and Brunel, together with their armies of Navvies, was to revolutionise Britain's transport system. This revolution not only faciliated industrial growth and urbanization but changed Britain's society and culture forever.

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