British Canals

Describes how canals emerged from the industrial revolution of the eighteenth century, how they thrived and subsequently declined in the face of competition from the railways.

Auteur

Joseph Boughey is one of Britain's leading living waterways historians, co-author of British Canals: The Standard History. He has written about Rolt in the Journal of Transport History, the Journal of the Railway and Canal Historical Society and the Waterways Journal, for which he on the editorial board. For many years, he was a Council member of the Railway and Canal Historical Society, and a Trustee of the Raymond Williams Foundation. He has spoken about Rolt in two television programmes and was 'canal consultant' for the series Canals: The Making of A Nation (2015). Since 2013, he has had a regular column in Narrowboat magazine.

Résumé
The first edition of British Canals was published in 1950 and was much admired as a pioneering work in transport history. Joseph Boughey, with the advice of Charles Hadfield, has previously revised and updated the perennially popular material to reflect more recent changes. For this ninth edition, Joseph Boughey discusses the many new discoveries and advances in the world of canals around Britain, inevitably focussing on the twentieth century to a far greater extent than in any previous edition of this book, while still within the context of Hadfield's original work.