Ten years of my website
It’s been ten years since a young student called Mike, who had an interest in my work and was producing an online magazine on London’s […]
It’s been ten years since a young student called Mike, who had an interest in my work and was producing an online magazine on London’s […]
Part 1 of 2 Part 2 of 2 The paperback edition of Blood, Iron and Gold has just been published.
In the depths of last winter, I had to get back home by train and plane from St Moritz via Zurich, after two feet of
Writing highly specialised history is perhaps the most demanding undertaking in the book world’s niche markets. Take railways. The writer who includes too much close
Once upon a time, every self-respecting schoolboy owned books with titles like The Wonder Book of Railway Wonders or Thrilling Trains of the World. They
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THANK the railways for – air hostesses. Their advent was an unintended by-product of the US’s celebrated Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway. Constructed between
RAILWAYS, declares Christian Wolmar in this illuminating study, “were the most important invention of the second millennium, transporting the Industrial Revolution from a few hot
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Blood, Iron and Gold Review by Andrew Martin, published on FT, the Evening Standard and the New Stateman. As I sit on a Virgin Pendolino
Review by Andrew Adonis Published: October 4 2009 21:17 | Last updated: October 4 2009 21:17 Blood, Iron & Gold: How the Railways Transformed the