The emergence of the motor car transformed the twentieth century. This illustrated book examines the earliest history of the motor age, explaining the first attempts to develop a self-propelled road vehicle. Often these early pioneers employed strange and dangerous tactics in their quest for the mot[...]
Manchester has a local history that is unlike anywhere else's. Although, as its name suggest, there is evidence beneath its streets of the first mud and timber fort built by the Romans some two thousand years ago - and of continuous occupation ever since - the city's worldwide fame and reputation de[...]