In the recent months, the Archive has been particularly busy collaborating with the University of Reading on their Careers and Experience Fairs, hoping to spread the word about our work and the good that can be done in the heritage, and even charity, sector. On Wednesday 30th September, our Information Manager, Elizabeth Trout, volunteer Alex…
Author: Kate Doughty
Finished Finnish Project
Hello everyone, I hope this finds you well. As I type I’ve just completed a series of webpages on my project, which can be found under the ‘Features and Articles’ section on the website. Hopefully this will be able to give you a final thorough and comprehensive view of the collection and show what information…
A part of England…inside a Finnish mill!
Hi everyone, I hope you’re well and the past couple of weeks have been enjoyable for you. If you’re thinking I’ve been quiet on the blog recently, it’s because my six-week internship ended in the middle of July, and since then I have been working on my third year History dissertation. The thought of it…
Skeleton mills
Hey everyone, I hope all is well. Just another update on how my project is going, and a few more things I’ve discovered that I hope you find interesting (I certainly did)! By now you might have seen some of the catalogue entries on the Finnish mills from Rex Wailes’ outstanding collection. As they’ve now…
Mills of Finland
1: Overview2: A note on Finland from Rex and Auvo3: Types of Finnish mill4: A few interesting mills arranged by province5: TIMS symposium speech on Finnish shingle mills6: Glossary of Finnish terms in English7: Rex Wailes' obituary8: About the author Overview Rex Wailes’ Finnish Mills collection has been catalogued and digitised as part of the Reading Internship…
Finnish watermills: The Crane of Death
Hello everyone, I hope you’re well and have been enjoying the lovely weather we’ve been having recently! I’ve realised that so far I haven’t spent all that much time talking about the watermills in the Rex Wailes collection, so thought that in this post I’d try to address that. Looking through the files we have…
Update from Kate: magpie mills and other Finnish quirks
Hello again! I hope this finds you well. Less than two weeks in and I already feel like a part of the Archive thanks to how welcoming the team are. It was also great to meet many of the Friends of the Archive at the Garden Party on Saturday, which was a brilliant day –…
My first week as the new intern!
Hi everyone! I’m Kate, the new intern at the Mills Archive for this summer. I’ve just finished my second of three years studying History at the University of Reading, and am really looking forward to meeting many of you at the Friends’ Garden Party this weekend. I’m now just over half way through my first…