Books by Barrie Trinder

Barrie Trinder is an acknowledged authority on the history of industry and of towns, having written the standard work on the industrial landscapes of England and Wales, and the first comprehensive survey of 20th-century industrial archaeology in Britain. He edited the first Encylopedia of Industrial Archaeology and has lectured in most European countries as well as in Canada, Japan, South Africa and the United States. After a teaching career of nearly forty years, most of it in Shropshire, where for 15 years he was Senior Research Fellow at the Ironbridge Institute, he is now a freelance writer and lecturer. His other titles for Phillimore include The Industrial Revolution in Shropshire, A History of Shropshire and the jointly authored The Iron Bridge and Miners & Mariners of the Severn Gorge.