Category: History - British
Coal is so intimately connected with all that is essentially modern—machinery, steam, and the black pall that overhangs our great towns and manufacturing districts—that it comes almost as a surprise to find it in use in Britain at the beginning of the Christian era. Yet excava...
The control of industry is a subject for the treatment of which there are materials sufficient for more than one large volume. I do not, however, regret that I can devote compar...
12. Book 9 Edw. IV., Easter Term, case 13.[350] An illustration of a gun firing an arrow, drawn apparently in 1326, is mentioned in _Proc. Soc. Ant._ (xvi., 225), and at the battle of St. Albans in 1461 guns were used s...
8. CHAPTER VIIIImportant as was the wool trade, for centuries the main source of England's wealth, its history, pertaining to the realms of commerce rather than of industry, does not concern u...
3. CHAPTER IIIThe lead-mining industry in England is important and interesting from its antiquity, the value of its produce, large quantities of silver being obtained from this source during...
6. CHAPTER VIThe English craftsmen were renowned for their metal work from the days of St. Dunstan downwards. St. Dunstan was the patron of the goldsmiths, his image being one of the chief o...
1. CHAPTER ICoal is so intimately connected with all that is essentially modern—machinery, steam, and the black pall that overhangs our great towns and manufacturing districts—that it comes...
7. CHAPTER VIIThe manufacture of earthen vessels was one of the earliest, as it was one of the most widespread industries. From the end of the Stone Age onwards wherever suitable clay was to...
2. CHAPTER IIIron has been worked in Britain from the earliest historical times, and flint implements have been found at Stainton-in-Furness and at Battle in Sussex in positions suggesting t...
10. CHAPTER XMalt liquors have been from time immemorial the national drink of England, but the ale of medieval times was quite different from the liquor which now passes indifferently under...
5. CHAPTER VStone-quarrying is an industry to which the references in medieval records are more numerous than enlightening. It would be easy to fill pages with a list of casual references t...
4. CHAPTER IVTin mining claims an antiquity unsurpassed by any other industry in this country, but with what degree of justice may well be doubted. The claim of the western promontory of Bri...
9. CHAPTER IXThe dressing of skins and preparation of leather must have been one of the most widely diffused industries in medieval times, even if it is a little exaggeration to claim that i...