ra SA, and in 1902 it began to be listed on the stock exchange. The steelworks was closed in the 1980s but its name continues in the company Duro Felguera SA. Many buildings survive and some are included

confiscated from the company in Germany and the Habsburg Empire. It provided competition in the 1920s and 30s, although the two firms reached a working agreement in 1925. An important innovation was the in [...] The Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits et des Grands Express Européens’ operated some of Europe’s most celebrated trains. On 5 June 1883 there was a demonstration of what was to become the Orient Express [...] from Paris to Lisbon, where connections were made with transatlantic steamers, in 1887. Nagelmackers’s ambition to convey India-bound travellers from England from the Channel coat to Brindisi was finally

War in the Women’s Royal Naval Service. She married Bernard Ashley in 1949. Between 1945 and 1952 she worked as a secretary at the London office of the National Federation of Women’s Institutes, and gained [...] in 1958. In 1961 they re-established the business at The Old Railway House, Carno, a crossing keeper’s cottage in mid-Wales, from which materials were distributed to women workers who made them up in their [...] the whole world dressed as milk maids’, and a Birmingham housewife who set up home in the early 1970s using Laura Ashley products, recalled that ‘We did the whole place in English country’. The company

then a freelance writer and consultant. He was active in the annual conferences in Bath in the 1960s which were influential in the growth of industrial archaeology in Great Britain and also attracted important [...] d his concern that historical studies should extend up to the present, and Where we used to work (1980), which demonstrated the value of oral history. He was also responsible for two major reference works [...] showed impatience with the writings of academic historians, and was more interested in telling people’s stories. His role was well summed-up by a friend who regarded him as ‘an ideas man not a meticulous