Titanic Legacy

Titanic Legacy

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Going Underground: Wakefield

Coventry at Work

People and Industries Through the Years

Series: At Work

Publication Date15th February 2025

Book FormatPaperback

pages96

Illustrations150

Height234

Width165

Coventry at Work is a fascinating pictorial history of the working life of the city of Coventry through the years.
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ISBN
9781398118959

Coventry has been a major centre of trade and industry since the Middle Ages. Medieval Coventry was known for making tiles, cloth, buckles, statues and stained glass. Other textile industries followed, the dyeing of cloth with the famous Coventry true blue and silk-weaving. Much later, in the twentieth century, Coventry became a pioneer of synthetic fibre manufacturing. Clock-making grew from the sixteenth century, and later watch-making – Dickens carried his Coventry watch until he died – and in the nineteenth century Coventry also became known for bike manufacture. This also led to Coventry becoming the hub of car manufacturing in the twentieth century. It was Coventry’s expertise in this area, as well as aircraft, military vehicles and armaments, that led to it being targeted by enemy bombing in the Second World War.


Coventry at Work explores the working life of this city in the East Midlands and its people and the industries that have characterised it through the ages. This book will appeal to all those with an interest in the history of Coventry.

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