Flat Caps for Millers and Millwrights

The flat cap can be traced back to the 14th century in Northern England, when it was more likely to...

From Stone to Steel in Norfolk’s Flour Mills

In the golden age of roller milling, a few exceptional country mills stood out not only for their technical advancement...

The History of Wind Turbines

Early mill engineers were concerned with converting the kinetic energy of wind and water into motive power for turning wheels...

The Letters of Millwright Robert Summers

The Summers letters are a unique collection of documents salvaged when a millwright’s workshops were converted into a garage in...

Peter Musgrove Receives CBE

Dr Peter Musgrove has been made a CBE, “for services to renewable energy” in the King's Birthday Honours List. CBE...

Successful Country Mills

During my research at the Mills Archive, I often encounter records of successful country mills from the early 20th century....

Ventnor Mill

Ventnor Mill was the oldest building in Ventnor on the Isle of Wight, which was, in about 1760, described as...

How Wheat Breaks

A guest post from Grant M. Campbell, Professor of Chemical Engineering, School of Applied Sciences, University of Huddersfield “In these...

Military Millers

The Second Anglo-Boer War began on 11 October 1899. The war between the British Empire and the Boer republics was...

Mills to Megawatts: A visit to the Institution of Engineering and Technology Archives

Records in the IET Archives reading room. Having embarked on the ‘Mills to Megawatts’ project to document and tell the...

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