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Tales from Rex Wailes: With the windmillwrights in fen and marsh

An interesting find in the Rex Wailes collection is a typescript by Douglas Reid (1881-1934) titled ‘With the windmillwrights in fen...

British and Irish Flour Mills 2

North Shore Mills Liverpool                                                                   Mildred Cookson Victorian Milling Journals   The Miller and Milling are the two...

Transcription #1: What on (or in) Earth is Saltpetre?

Mary Gregson March marked about a year since my archive volunteer projects were put on hold due to the pandemic....

John Figgis Morton (1872-1958)

or Mr Hovis and the triumph of advertising brown bread Hovis is a distinctive brand of brown bread.  However, it...

Exploring “Milling and Grain”

During the lockdown I have been reading through past issues of Milling and Grain, a monthly magazine by Perendale publishers...

£75,000 grant from the Garfield Weston Foundation for “Hidden Heroes” project

I am delighted to announce that we have been awarded a grant of £75,000 by the Garfield Weston Foundation. This...

Saint Anthony’s Fire and Brimstone: Daily Bread or Daily Dread?

Everybody knows about the dangers of eating wild plants, and even experienced nature-lovers have to be careful when picking woodland...

Why I chose the Mills Archive Trust to start my voluntary work

One of our volunteers, Noor, has written about her experience at the Mills Archive: I am sure everyone has their...

The Devil’s Mill

The issue of The Miller dated 5 May 1930 contains this story about the ‘Devil’s Mill’ A miller’s apprentice loved...

Milling in 19th century Norway

While sat in a meeting in our Founders’ Room, my eyes travelled across the spines of the antiquarian books visible...

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