slavery – British Manufacturing History

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The British in India

August 28, 2025 — 3 Comments

The story perhaps begins with castles of which I write in my piece on military building, but most particularly on castles which became homes. In her very personal book English Country House, Vita Sackville-West points to a number. Berkley overlooking the Severn is one, occupied by the same family for eight centuries. Another is Leeds […]

Transport and Transport Buildings

The largely landlocked Persian Empire built and maintained the Silk Road(s) long before Rome was even thought of. Herodotus observed that a road of 1600 miles could be travelled in seven days. Being landlocked, the sea was not an alternative although perhaps rivers were. Britain, as an island, offered places near to the coast a […]

Military building

Castles My story of British buildings before the Elizabethan age is one of internal conflict. The ancient British tribes would fight each other. The long line of invaders would terrify the local population. The response though wasn’t with castles, but, as I write in my piece on Early England, with burghs promoted by the king […]

The Building of Central Ordnance Depot – Old Dalby

In the Second World War, Central Ordnance depots around Britain ensured that the army, anywhere in the world, was supplied with the armaments and vehicles they needed. This link is to a map of where they were. The work of the depots is described in more detail in this link. Chilwell near Nottingham had become […]

The Development of Church Architecture from the Sixteenth to the Nineteenth Centuries

The period from the 16th to the 19th centuries saw the birth of the modern world out of its medieval womb. The Church was at the centre of the start of this process but in the eyes of many was by the end moving to the sidelines. A comprehensive description of the development of church […]

British Manufacturing History

How manufacturing shaped Britain. Why manufacturing spread across the country, how it grew, why it declined and what was left.

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The British in India

The Scramble for Africa