A History of Britain’s Transport

An accessible book to draw on popular interest in transport history, routes, vehicles and experiences. Transport history is social and industrial national history. Passengers and freight will be covered including all types of transport from walking and packhorses, that predominated for much of national history, both of which tend to be underrated, to changes brought by improvements to road transport from the Romans to medieval bridgebuilders and eighteenth-century turnpikes, and, in parallel, river, coastal and canal travel, again from the Romans to the eighteenth century. The story moves to the age of rail, motoring and lastly air. All forms overlap. as well as being sequential. AUTHOR: Jeremy Black has been described as 'the most prolific historical scholar of our age'. He has researched and written widely on British history, politics, including political ideas, and international relations, since the 17th and 18th century to the present, and especially on military history.