In a 2002 poll by the BBC, Isambard Kingdom Brunel was voted the second greatest Briton of all time, after Winston Churchill.

There are some notable figures in history that you know of for just one single thing. They may have achieved much in their lifetimes or they may have only been famous for Andy Warhol’s fifteen minutes ...

Historic images of the original architectural drawings by Isambard Kingdom Brunel have been captured for the first time on a new Network Rail virtual archive, bringing together 19th century ...

It doesn’t matter whether you know it as a railway, a railroad, a chemin de fer, or a 铁路, it’s a fair certainty that the trains near where you live are most likely to be powered either by diesel or ...

History teaching resources for History Key Stage 2 - The Victorians - with lesson plans. Topics include: life as a Victorian ...

The great Victorian engineer designed much of the UK’s underlying connective infrastructure: dockyards, the Great Western Railway, suspension bridges, and innovations like tunnels beneath rivers. It ...

Isambard Kingdom Brunel was and is one of the most celebrated engineers ever to have lived. There's a London university named after him, statues commemorating him across the UK, and many of the ...

A HUNDRED years ago, in the iron age, the world watched a wonder grow on the Isle of Dogs, on the River Thames, in London. It was a steam-ship five times the size of the biggest vessel afloat then, in ...

The Association of American Railroads (AAR) and the International Union of Railways (UIC) on Wednesday jointly announced 43 projects from 11 nations have been recognized for design excellence in the ...

The influential 19 th-century British mechanical and civil engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel’s Thames Tunnel in London was the first underground tunnel to be constructed successfully beneath a ...

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