Books on Brunel’s colleagues and contemporaries include the following:
Anthony, John (2003) Joseph Paxton Shire Publications: Bucks
Bailey, Michael R (ed) (2003) Robert Stephenson: the eminent engineer Ashgate: Aldershot
Beaumont, Robert (2002) The Railway King: a biography of George Hudson Headline: London
Blaise, Clark (2000) Sir Stanford Fleming and the Creation of Standard Time Weidenfeld & Nicholson: London
Burton, Anthony (2000) Richard Trevithick Aurum Press: London
Colquhoun, Kate (2003) A Thing in Disguise: the visionary life of Joseph Paxton Fourth Estate: London
Dugan, Sally (2003) Men of Iron: Brunel, Stephenson and the inventions that shaped the modern world Channel Four Books: London
Rolt, L T C (1985 reprint) Thomas Telford Penguin: London
Wilson, R B (ed) Sir Daniel Gooch: memoirs and diary David & Charles: Newton Abbot
The Joseph Paxton Society website is at
http://csasip2.gold.ac.uk/paxton/index.html
The Trevithick Society website is at
www.zawn.freeserve.co.uk
The Industrial Revolution
The following books provide information on
engineering and technology during the Industrial Revolution:
Baynes, K and Pugh, F (1981) The Art of the Engineer Lutterworth Press: Guildford
Beckett, D (1980) Brunel’s Britain David & Charles: London
Jarvis, Adrian (2003) The Victorian Engineer Shire Publications Ltd: Bucks
McCullough, David (1972) The Great Bridge: the epic story of the building of the Brooklyn Bridge Simon & Schuster: New York
Peters, Tom F (1996) Building the Nineteenth Century MIT: Boston
Rolt, L T C (1970) Victorian Engineering Penguin: London
Uglow, Jenny (2002) The Lunar Men Faber: London
Weightman, Gavin (2003) What the Industrial Revolution Did For Us BBC Books: London
The BBC History website has a section on industrialisation at http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/society_culture/
industrialisation
The Ironbridge Gorge Museum website is at
www.ironbridge.org.uk
The Cotton Times website provides information on the growth of the Lancashire cotton industry at www.cottontimes.co.uk/index.html
Social
and political change
Books on the social and political world in which Brunel operated include
the following:
Briggs, Asa (1990 reprint) Victorian People
Penguin: London
Hobsbawn, Eric (2002 reprint) The Age of Revolution:
1789-1848 Abacus: London
Houghton, Walter E (1957) The Victorian Frame
of Mind, 1830-1870 Yale University Press: New Haven
Kitson Clark, G (1962) The Making of Victorian
England Methuen & Co Ltd: London
Longmate, Norman (2003 reprint) The Workhouse
Pimlico: London
Mackenzie, John M (2001) The Victorian Vision:
inventing new Britain V & A Publications: London
Strachey, Lytton (2003 reprint) Eminent Victorians
Oxford University Press: Oxford
Wilson, A N (2002) The Victorians Hutchinson:
London
Young, G M (2002 reprint) Portrait of an Age
Phoenix Press: New York
The following are suitable for children:
Chamberlain, E R (1993 reprint) Everyday Life
in Victorian Britain Simon & Schuster: Hemel Hempstead
Kramer, Ann (2003) Eyewitness Victorians
Dorling Kindersley: London
Arts and culture
The following books provide an insight into the artistic and cultural
life of the period of the Industrial Revolution.
Bailey, Anthony (1997) Turner: standing in the
sun Sinclair-Stevenson: London
Bonython, Elizabeth and Anthony Burton (2003) The
Great Exhibitor: the life and work of Henry Cole V&A Publications:
London
Clark, Kenneth (1969) Civilisation BBC
and John Murray: London
Daniels, Stephen (1999) Joseph Wright
Tate Gallery Publishing: London
Hilton, Tim (2000 reprint) John Ruskin: the early
years Yale University Press: New Haven
Hamilton, James (1998) Turner and the Scientists
Tate Gallery Publishing: London
Leapman, Michael (2001) The World for a Shilling:
how the great exhibition of 1851 shaped a nation Headline: London
Otis, L (ed) (2002) Literature and Science in
the Nineteenth Century: an anthology Oxford University Press: Oxford
Smiles, Samuel (2002 reprint) Self-help
Oxford
University Press: Oxford
Staley, Allen and Christopher Newall (2004) Pre-Raphaelite
Vision: truth to nature Tate Publishing: London
The Victorian Society is responsible for the study and protection of Victorian
and Edwardian architecture and other arts. Its website is at www.victorian-society.org.uk
Tate Britain has a Turner Online website at
www.tate.org.uk/britain/turner/default.htm
The Crystal Palace Foundation is dedicated to preserving the history of
the Crystal Palace. Its website is at www.crystalpalacefoundation.org.uk
