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Across the pond with Rex Wailes

In 1929 Rex Wailes, aged 28, went on a business trip to the USA and Canada – taking every opportunity...

The Mills Archive attends the QAVS Presentation Ceremony

After a very exciting summer of being named as a recipient of the Queen’s Award for Voluntary Service and enjoying...

The Mills Archive receives a nationally important collection from the Science Museum

The Mills Archive Trust is pleased to announce that it has received one of the most important mill collections of...

Archivist’s Pick: Notes on gunpowder manufacture

Two of the most attractive items in the Alan and Glenys Crocker collection are beautiful handwritten notebooks from the Royal...

The end of my journey at the Mills Archive Trust

Hello and welcome back to my weekly blog series in which I share with you (my doting audience) topics which...

What’s so interesting about social history?

Hello and welcome to my penultimate blog, working at the Mills Archive Trust, where I write about a myriad of...

How do you make mills interesting for the general public?

Hi and welcome along to another instalment of the weekly blog, where I talk about things which I have found...

Is there any value in a book you can’t understand?

Hello and welcome to my final blog as an intern at the Mills Archive Trust… or is it? Turns out...

Visiting our Heritage Partner, Wimbledon Windmill!

Last Friday, Liz, Mildred and I had a delightful visit to Wimbledon Windmill, one of the Mills Archive’s Heritage Partners....

The Watermill Warrior

In the year 1892, a formidable force arrived on British shores: a lady by the name of Emilie Montgomery Gardner,...

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