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The Summers letters are a unique collection of documents salvaged when a millwright’s workshops were converted into a garage in...

Dr Peter Musgrove has been made a CBE, “for services to renewable energy” in the King's Birthday Honours List. CBE...

During my research at the Mills Archive, I often encounter records of successful country mills from the early 20th century....

Ventnor Mill was the oldest building in Ventnor on the Isle of Wight, which was, in about 1760, described as...

A guest post from Grant M. Campbell, Professor of Chemical Engineering, School of Applied Sciences, University of Huddersfield “In these...

The Second Anglo-Boer War began on 11 October 1899. The war between the British Empire and the Boer republics was...

Records in the IET Archives reading room. Having embarked on the ‘Mills to Megawatts’ project to document and tell the...

North Leverton Windmill has been milling since 1813. It is the only wind corn mill in England to have worked...

I doubt that many people have ever heard the name Judson Moss Bemis or his brother Stephen, who would introduce...

This blog is based on several oral history interviews with our founder Mildred Cookson about her time as the miller...

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