Author: Nathanael Hodge

Across the pond with Rex Wailes: Halifax

Part 4 of a weekly series of blogs about Rex Wailes’ 1929 trip to the USA and Canada. Georges Island,...

Across the pond with Rex Wailes: Crossing the Atlantic

Part 3 of a weekly series of blogs about Rex Wailes’ 1929 trip to the USA and Canada. Canadian Pacific...

Across the pond with Rex Wailes: to Belfast and Greenock

Part 2 of a weekly series of blogs about Rex Wailes’ 1929 trip to the USA and Canada. Belfast Lough. Photo...

Across the pond with Rex Wailes

In 1929 Rex Wailes, aged 28, went on a business trip to the USA and Canada – taking every opportunity...

Archivist’s Pick: Notes on gunpowder manufacture

Two of the most attractive items in the Alan and Glenys Crocker collection are beautiful handwritten notebooks from the Royal...

Tools of the trade

Alongside papers and photographs, the Mills Archive also collects small milling artefacts. These are some I recently added to our...

The Devil’s Art: The History of Gunpowder Manufacture

A man in a monk’s habit kneels on the floor, books and implements scattered about him. In his hand he...

A visit to Wright’s flour mill

Last week Liz and I had the privilege of visiting Ponders End Mills, the home of family milling business G...

New Collections 2018

Each year we submit a list of all our acquisitions to the National Archives. 2018 saw an interesting and varied...

Browse images by county and mill type

A new feature we have recently added to our Images and Documents catalogue allows you to browse images by country,...

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