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Author Tim Bryan tells the story of Brunel’s achievements and innovations Tim spent 21 years as curator of the GWR and ‘Steam’ Museums in Swindon, and is Director of the Brunel Institute at the SS Great Britain. Brunel’s astounding feats changed the British landscape. New to railways in 1830, he soon rivalled the Stephensons as…

Ben Sumpter searches for the sources of tin in antiquity The earliest travellers to the British Isles whose texts have survived frequently mention tin working in what is now Devon and Cornwall. What do these Greek and Roman sources tell us about the historic tin trade under the Romans, during the Iron Age, and even…