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Sugar mills: shining light into the shadows

Elizabeth Bartram Two months ago, I introduced our 13th Mills Archive Research Publication “Sugar Mills and Slavery” by Stuart Nisbet....

Robert Stone, miller of Pangbourne

Elizabeth Trout The diaries of Robert Stone give us a rare and fascinating glimpse into the day-to-day working patterns and...

Women in Milling: an interactive exhibition

Elizabeth Bartram (Director) & Mildred Cookson (Founding Trustee) The story of flour milling is as ancient as civilisation itself, and...

Wood in millwrighting

Since mills first appeared in Britain, the main material that has been used to construct them has been wood. The...

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                                   ...

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