Author: Lucy Noble

Saint Anthony’s Fire and Brimstone: Daily Bread or Daily Dread?

Everybody knows about the dangers of eating wild plants, and even experienced nature-lovers have to be careful when picking woodland...

Smugglers’ Mills and Nefarious Thrills

Throughout the ages, the role of the miller has been subject to all sorts of stories and stereotypes: millers have...

Gems of the Archive: Milling Miscreants

Have you ever heard the phrase ‘an honest miller has hairy palms’? Or perhaps the old expression ‘safe as a...

The Mills Archive receives a grant for our project, Mill Makers: The Wright Records

We are absolutely thrilled to announce that we have been awarded a grant of £9,944 from the National Manuscripts Conservation...

Gems of the Archive: On a Mission for Mills

As the nights are drawing in and the misty mornings are covered with a dusting of frost, most of us...

Your invitation to our ‘Caring for your Collection’ Workshop

On Monday 25th November 2019, we are holding a training workshop at the Archive, on the subject of ‘Caring for...

Gems of the Archive: Giants and Germans

It’s likely that you are familiar with the well-used idiom ‘tilting at windmills’ – you may even have used it...

Power to the People: another successful Heritage Open Day!

Following the resounding success of last September’s event, the Mills Archive was delighted to once again participate in Heritage Open...

The Mills Archive attends the QAVS Presentation Ceremony

After a very exciting summer of being named as a recipient of the Queen’s Award for Voluntary Service and enjoying...

Visiting our Heritage Partner, Wimbledon Windmill!

Last Friday, Liz, Mildred and I had a delightful visit to Wimbledon Windmill, one of the Mills Archive’s Heritage Partners....

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