Barrie Stuart Trinder

Barrie Stuart Trinder (born 1939) is a British historian and writer on industrial archaeology. After a career in teaching, he took a PhD at the University of Leicester, graduating in 1980 with a thesis on the history of Banbury. He then became a research fellow at the Ironbridge Institute, and later lectured on industrial archaeology at Nene College of Higher Education in Northampton. He was a founder member of The International Committee for the Conservation of the Industrial Heritage (TICCIH). He has written and edited on the history of Banbury, on Shropshire, and on the industrial archaeology and industrial history of Britain generally. He edited The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Industrial Archaeology. He was made a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London in 2000.

Early life Barrie Trinder was born in Banbury, Oxfordshire, in 1939. He read modern history at St Catherine's College, University of Oxford. In the 1980s He was a founder member of The International Committee for the Conservation of the Industrial Heritage (TICCIH) In the 1980s he wrote about his native Banbury in Victorian Banbury (1982), more on the history of Shropshire, and began to write more widely about British history with The Making of the Industrial Landscape (1982) and Industrial Heritage of Britain (1988). Asa Briggs in The Literary Review described Trinder's survey of the industrial landscape as breaking much new ground and in seeking to recreate in the imagination the conditions of the Industrial Revolution, setting out the manifesto of what might be called the Coalbrookdale School of historians which contrasted with the Leicester School.

Selected publications Articles "Industrial Archaeology in Britain", Archaeology, Vol. 34, No. 1 (January/February 1981), pp. 8–16.

Books authored 1970s The Industrial Revolution in Shropshire. Phillimore & Co., London, 1973. ISBN 0900592702 The Darbys of Coalbrookdale. Phillimore & Co., Chichester, 1974. ISBN 0850333059 The Hay Inclined Plane: How tub boats were raised and lowered between the Shropshire Canal and Coalport Basin. Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust, 1978. The Iron Bridge: Symbol of the Industrial Revolution. Moonraker Press, Bradford-on-Avon, 1979. (With Neil Cossons) ISBN 0239001877

1980s The Making of the Industrial Landscape. J.M. Dent, London, 1982. ISBN 0460044273 Victorian Banbury. Phillimore & Co., 1982. ISBN 9780850334333 A History of Shropshire. Phillimore & Co., 1983. ISBN 9780850334753 Industrial Heritage of Britain. Automobile Association, 1988. ISBN 086145684X

1990s The Industrial Archaeology of Shropshire. Phillimore & Co., Chichester, 1996. ISBN 0850339898 Book of Industrial England. Batsford & English Heritage, London, 1997. (With Michael Stratton) ISBN 0713475633

2000s Barges and Bargemen: A social history of the Upper Severn Navigation 1660–1900. Phillimore & Co., 2008. ISBN 9781860773617 Beyond the Bridges: The suburbs of Shrewsbury 1760–1960. Phillimore & Co., 2008. ISBN 9781860773938 Britain’s Industrial Revolution: The making of a manufacturing people, 1700–1870. Carnegie Publishing, 2013. ISBN 9781859361757 Twentieth Century Industrial Archaeology. Taylor & Francis, 2016. (With Michael Stratton) ISBN 9781138140516 Junctions at Banbury: A town and its railways since 1850. Banbury Historical Society & Lamplight Publications, Banbury, 2017. ISBN 9781899246618 Georgian Banbury. Banbury Historical Society / Robert Boyd Publications, Banbury, 2023. ISBN 9780900129377

Books edited "The Most Extraordinary District in the World": Ironbridge and Coalbrookdale. Phillimore & Co., 1977. ISBN 9780850332445 Yeomen and Colliers in Telford: Probate inventories for Dawley, Lilleshall, Wellington and Wrockwardine, 1660–1750. Phillimore & Co., London, 1980. (With Jeff Cox) ISBN 0850333822 Victorian Shrewsbury: Studies in the history of a county town. Victorian Shrewsbury Research Group, Shropshire Books, 1984. ISBN 9780903802307 The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Industrial Archaeology. Blackwell Publishing, 1992. ISBN 0631142169