Passing Through: The Grand Junction Canal in West Hertfordshire, 1791-1841

by Fabian Hiscock

The fifty years from the last decade of the eighteenth century saw great changes in Britain. Significant technological and economic change, not to mention wars, affected great swathes of the population and profoundly changed many aspects of life. In this book Fabian Hiscock considers this dramatic upheaval as it played out in western Hertfordshire, focusing in particular on just one of the many innovations of the time: the Grand Junction Canal, created...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1912260158
• ISBN13: 9781912260157
• Release Date: December 2019
• Publisher: Hertfordshire Publications
• Length: 256 Pages