Dragons by Liam Byrne

Author:Liam Byrne [Byrne, Liam]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781781857465
Publisher: Head of Zeus

*1 Austen’s Sense and Sensibility was published in 1815, while Dickens’s Pickwick Papers was published over a decade later.

*2 This is now the National Trust shop.

*3 In due course three sons – George, John and William – and a daughter, Anne, would survive into adulthood.

*4 Out of a survey of 1,922 people, there were 88 coach drivers for instance, along with owners and grooms, and 182 hotel and inn keepers and beer sellers.

*5 Beverley became home to Flemish merchants and weavers, celebrated in the naming of the town’s Fleming Gate.

*6 Fifty-one ships sailed from Hull in 1738, and soon towns like Oporto and Lisbon were as familiar, as were the buyers of Amsterdam, with the low-cost goods and aggressive marketing of the merchants from Leeds, Wakefield and Halifax. Over the course of the eighteenth century, this share of national industry rose from 20 to 60 per cent.

*7 The Company of Cutlers was authorized by Parliament in 1624, and boasted 2,000 members by 1679.

*8 The average blast furnace might produce 20 tonnes a week. See Birch, The Economic History of the British Iron and Steel Industry, 1784–1879 (Frank Cass, 1967), pp. 46–8.

*9 Together on the road out to Rotherham, the steel firms created ‘a long drawn horror of confluent damnation’; a street ‘separated from Hell only by a sheet of tissue paper’. Tweedale, Steel City, op. cit., p. 5.

*10 Head was a cavalry officer who had served in the American wars and had found fame with his book, Forest Scenes and Incidents in the Wilds of North America.

*11 King Louis XIV’s engine, the Roulette, with which he entertained his guests was built in the gardens of Marly near Versailles, and pushed by three valets.

*12 Peacock strongly refutes this well-established story in his book George Hudson, op. cit., p. 46.

*13 You could travel from London to Oxford in little over an hour.

*14 40 per cent of the capital for this line was raised from Manchester businessmen.

*15 The bill transferred to the N&DJ, the Great North of England’s power to build a line to Darlington.

*16 This had increased from 250 miles in 1838.

*17 Ironically, it also revealed William Cash as one of the more prominent members of a highly dubious railway scheme promoted by Hudson. Beaumont, The Railway King, op. cit., p. 130.

*18 The net costs of Empire are of course much debated. Michael Edelstein estimates that the net benefits could be as high as 5.7–6.8 per cent of national income in 1913 – much less than the value of the technical breakthrough of the railways, which may have been worth as much as 10 per cent of GNP. Edelstein, Overseas Investment in the Age of High Imperialism: The UK, 1830–1914 (Colombia University Press, 1982), p. 215.

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