Travellers' accounts of business & industry
These publications relate to journals kept by travellers in Britain largely in the 18th and early 19th centuries. In these they recorded descriptions of and observations on the industrial plant and processes they saw. The travellers were often from overseas and sometimes engaged in industrial espionage
There are no businesses in this collection
Publications:
- A city in search of yarn. The journal of Edward Taylor of Norwich, 1817
- A Year in Europe Comprising a Journal of Observation in England, Scotland, Ireland, France, Switzerland, the North of Italy and Holland in 1818 and 1819
- An American Quaker in the British Isles. The travel journals of Jabez Maud Fisher, 1775-1779
- Journeys of Celia Fiennes
- British railroads and engineers and the beginnings of American railroad development
- Ferrner's Journal, 1759/60. An industrial spy in Bath and Bristol
- Foreign observers of the British iron industry during the eighteenth century
- Francis Thompson's visit to Cardiganshire mines in 1788
- The Kalmeter Journal. The journal of a visit to Cornwall, Devon and Somerset, 1724-25, of Henric Kalmeter, 1693-1750
- Henric Kalmeter's Account of Mining and Smelting in the South West in 1724-25
- 'Journal of Henry Kalmeter's travels in Scotland, 1719-1720' in Scottish Industrial History. A miscellany
- Industrial Britain under the Regency. The diaries of Escher, Bodmer, May and de Gallors, 1814-18
- Innocent Espionage. The La Rochefoucauld Brothers' tour of England in 1785
- Iron industry in the West Midlands in 1754. Observations from the travel dairy of Charles Wood
- J C Fischer and his Diary of Industrial England, 1814-1851
- Johann Conrad Fischer, 1773-1854. Tagebucher
- Metallurgist Johann Conrad Fischer, 1773-1854
- Joshua Field's diary of a tour in the Midlands, 1821; with introduction and notes
- Joshua Field's diary of a tour in 1821 through the provinces, 1821, Part II; with introduction and notes
- Joshua Gilpin. An American manufacturer in England and Wales, 1795-1801
- Journal of a Tour of Scotland in 1819; with introduction and notes by C H Herford
- La mission de Gabriel Jars dans les mines et les usines Britanniques en 1764
- Voyages Metalurgiques, ou Recherches et Observations sur Les Mines et Forges de Fer, La Fabrication de L'Acier celle du Fer Blanc et plusieurs Mines de Charbon de Terre .. . [1757-1769] en Allemagne, Suede, Norvege, Angleterre et Ecosse ...
- 'Tour of the works. Early Scottish industry observed, 1790-1825' in A J G Cummings & T M Devine (eds), Industry, Business and Society in Scotland since 1700. Essays presented to Professor John Butt
- The Hatchett Diary. A tour through the counties of England and Scotland in 1796, visiting their mines and manufactories
- Report on railways in England in 1826-27
- R R Angerstein's Illustrated Travel Diary, 1753-1755. Industry in England and Wales from a Swedish perspective
- Svedenstierna's Tour Great Britain, 1802-3. The travel diary of an industrial spy ... with a new introduction by M W Flinn
- Notes of a Tour in the Manufacturing Districts of Lancashire; with a new introduction by W H Chaloner
- Observations Made on a Journey through the Western Counties of Scotland in the Autumn of MDCCXCII relating to the Scenery, Antiquaries, Customs, Manners, Population, Agriculture, Manufactures, Commerce, Political Condition and Literature of these Parts
- Mechanical Arts and Merchandise. Industrial espionage and travellers' accounts as a source for technical historians
- Britain's mines and manufactures. Celia Fiennes observations in 1697-1698
- Home Tour through the Manufacturing Districts of England in the Summer of 1835; with a new introduction by W H Chaloner
- John Smeaton's Diary of his Journey to the Low Countries from the Original MS in the Library of Trinity House, London; with an introduction by Arthur Tilney
- Norwich's textile industry in 1784, observed by Maximilien de Lazowski
- British industry in 1767. Extracts from a travel journal of Joseph Banks