Author: Nathanael Hodge

Using our Mills Database

The database of mills on our website contains more than 12,000 entries, and can be searched in a variety of ways....

Holman Bros, millwrights of Canterbury

In the last few months this newsletter has featured several articles about the Montefiore Windmill in Jerusalem, which was built...

Using our Images and Documents catalogue

One of the main ways we provide access to our archives is through our images and documents catalogue, which you...

‘Mill people’ images and Website survey

‘Mill people’ images Mills have often been a popular theme for artworks, ranging from realistic depictions to some of the...

Satanic mills

Opinions are divided on the question of what the poet William Blake was talking about when he referred to the...

Time, the old miller

The mill as a metaphor for time and change is an ancient theme. St Augustine of Hippo (354-430) in his...

Mills make the world go round

Mills are most well-known for grinding corn into flour. Over the centuries mills powered by wind, water and other power sources...

The Mill of Wealth

Mills have often featured in myth and legend. One ancient Norse poem, the Grottasongr or Lay of Grotti tells of...

Tales from Rex Wailes. Ups and downs of the old type millwrights

In the Rex Wailes collection is a file of correspondence with John Bryant. Born 1861, Bryant was, in his own...

Archiving at home

This week is Volunteers’ Week, and to mark it we’d like to say a HUGE thank you to all our...

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