A fascinating look at the early railways of Manchester.

A beautiful collection of steam locomotives in the Pennines.This book follows preserved lines and steam specials and revisits iconic locations in the history of steam across the Pennines.

This book outlines the technical design of the Planet and Samson locomotive, and charts the careers of the class members at home and abroad.

Here is a book written primarily for playgoers. Looking closely at eighteen plays, Anthony Dawson examines key decisions that actors and directors have to make, and shows how different interpretations…

Deftly combining history and tragedy, Shakespeare’s tale of bad government and usurpation had great political immediacy for its first audiences. This version of the text is based on the early…

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

This work is in the "public…

This collection, the first of its kind, brings together specially commissioned academic essays to mark fifty years since the death of John Kennedy Toole.