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The hero of the drought

Early 20th-century crossbreeding of sorghum in the United States and its propagation in a 21st-century world affected by climate change

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Mills in the Second World War – Hannah Pomeroy

This Gun Who is this man,This man who holds a gun?His gun is differentYet, it is the same…His has a...

Stansted Windmill, Essex by Nathanael Hodge

The mill in 1880 with the miller in the doorway REXW-ESS-73-06 Stansted windmill stands in the village of Stansted Mountfitchet in...

Mill Fires

October, 1886: After a hard day at work you are asleep in your bed, the chill of the autumn day...

French Windmills – Amanda Knight

A quest to begin a new career as an Archivist led me to seek some hands-on experience at an accredited...

Mills Sections and Mills Archives

How can one woman’s fight to preserve watermills in the 1940s define two different heritage institutions, multiple important archival collections...

Workshop – Caring for your collection

At the Mills Archive we recently made our first foray into delivery online webinars, on the topic of caring for...

‘As you like it’ – Nathanael Hodge

The magazine ‘As you like it’ was created for the staff of Joseph Rank Ltd in the 1920s. They provide...

Building a Mill: Workforce

The mill has now been built and filled with the best, new machinery. However, ‘Fine buildings, located on traffic arteries,...

Women in the Northwestern Miller magazine

Starlina Rose How women are discussed in the articles and advertisements in the Northwestern Miller throughout the 1930s is invariably...

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