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‘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...

Word Jumble

Since November 2023, I have been working as the Renewable Energy Intern at the Mills Archive Trust. My main project...

Priority Collections

Getting our priorities in order With 286 collections in our archive, ranging from 1 to over 200 boxes in size,...

Renewable Roots

This is the beginning of a new series that explores the link between milling, renewable energy and climate change. We...

Sketches by Thomas Hennell

This sketch, showing the machinery in an unnamed mill, is one of a number drawn by artist Thomas Hennell and...

Work experience at the Mills Archive

I’m coming to the end of my two weeks of work experience at the Mill Archive Trust, having originally applied...

Breathing Fire

Chris Viney Sonning Mill – Steam Traction Engine, 1890 (Mills Archive Collection,EIGH-SON-02-007) This photograph shows a steam wagon outside Sonning...

The Advent of Modern Milling

Find out more about the origins of roller mills in the articles below: History of Roller Milling: Farewell to the...

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