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Across the pond with Rex Wailes: Crossing the Atlantic

Part 3 of a weekly series of blogs about Rex Wailes’ 1929 trip to the USA and Canada. Canadian Pacific...

Power to the People: another successful Heritage Open Day!

Following the resounding success of last September’s event, the Mills Archive was delighted to once again participate in Heritage Open...

Across the pond with Rex Wailes: to Belfast and Greenock

Part 2 of a weekly series of blogs about Rex Wailes’ 1929 trip to the USA and Canada. Belfast Lough. Photo...

Volunteer Spotlight: Albury Park Paper Mill and its Forged Assignats

When I’m looking through articles in the Archive, I’m always fascinated in discovering how mills played a part in a...

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...

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