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Satanic mills

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

Women in milling

Elizabeth Bartram (Director) & Mildred Cookson (Founding Trustee) Milling has a rich and immersive history. Women have always been involved...

Feeding the World. Roller milling: towards a modern industry in the UK

From Quern to Computer; a history of flour milling by Martin and Sue Watts covers a wide range of topics and this...

Sugar Mills and Slavery by Stuart M Nisbet

Following an excellent, well-illustrated article by Willem van Bergen in International Molinology, 2020, 101: 2-9, the Mills Archive Trust has...

An insight into one of our oldest books – ‘the Moolen-boek’

In our special collections here at the Mills Archive, we have an original copy of the Theatrum Machinarum Universale of...

Milling & millwrighting in Cambridgeshire in the 2020’s – Wicken Windmill & the Millwrights

By Dave Pearce                                   ...

Tolkien’s Mill

This article was first published on our blog on 10/05/2019 It is a widely known fact that J. R. R....

From Barrels to Sacks

The articles on which this newsletter is based first appeared in Mill Memories 26, Spring 2020 and 28, Spring 2021....

Merry Christmas!

Christmas is almost upon us, so we thought we would share some recipes for “Christmas cheer” from 1945. The Wine...

The John Bedington Collection arrives at the Mills Archive

 By John Bedington As a youngster between 1963 and about 1972 I spent a lot of time pedalling around Staffordshire...

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