Fire and Water
Rosalind Mitchison, 17 October 1985
Water Power in Scotland: 1550-1870
by John Shaw.
John Donald, 606 pp., £25, April 1984,0 85976 072 3 Show More
by John Shaw.
John Donald, 606 pp., £25, April 1984,
The History of the British Coal Industry. Vol. II: 1700-1830, The Industrial Revolution
by Michael Flinn and David Stoker.
Oxford, 491 pp., £35, March 1984,0 19 828283 4 Show More
by Michael Flinn and David Stoker.
Oxford, 491 pp., £35, March 1984,
Industry and Ethos: Scotland 1832-1914
by Sydney Checkland and Olive Checkland.
Arnold, 218 pp., £5.95, March 1984,0 7131 6317 8 Show More
by Sydney Checkland and Olive Checkland.
Arnold, 218 pp., £5.95, March 1984,
The Jacobite Clans of the Great Glen: 1650-1784
by Bruce Lenman.
Methuen, 246 pp., £14.95, November 1984,0 413 48690 7 Show More
by Bruce Lenman.
Methuen, 246 pp., £14.95, November 1984,
The Prince and the Pretender: A Study in the Writing of History
by A.J. Youngson.
Croom Helm, 270 pp., £16.95, April 1985,0 7099 2908 0 Show More
by A.J. Youngson.
Croom Helm, 270 pp., £16.95, April 1985,
Canna: The Story of a Hebridean Island
by J.L. Campbell.
Oxford, 323 pp., £25, December 1984,0 19 920137 4 Show More
by J.L. Campbell.
Oxford, 323 pp., £25, December 1984,
“... been a government-promoted Plan for Coal. No major industry could be allowed to languish. But, as Michael Flinn points out, it was not with the actual process of mining that 18th-century government concerned itself, but with the trading of the product. The coastwise traffic in coal was the largest activity of British shipping, a major training ground of ... ”
