From the Napoleonic Wars to the Devil's Device: The History of Weymouth and Its Neighbours, Vol II

From the Napoleonic Wars to the Devil's Device begins where the first volume of this local history left off, as Weymouth and its neighbours move from the heady days of being the century's favourite sea bathing resort into the 19th century. In the 1800s, these communities experience the highs and lows of the Napoleonic Wars and the Industrial Revolution. Some will prosper, others will struggle, evidenced by the many workhouses built in Dorset by order of Parliament in the 1830s. Then there w...