Author: Nathanael Hodge

An ancient milling revolution

Nathanael Hodge  Happy New Year to all readers of our newsletter! 2023 is the Mills Archive’s 21st birthday, and in...

Roller flour mill collections

At the Mills Archive we have a wide range of interests covering a variety of subjects connected to mills and...

A typical country miller 

A few weeks ago, we featured some of the writing of John Munnings (1916-1987) with his memories about growing up...

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...

Catgerories