Each year we submit a list of all our acquisitions to the National Archives. 2018 saw an interesting and varied array of collections and smaller donations arriving at the Archive. The total list of accessions for 2018 is available here. It includes: 14 new collections (22 boxes and 33.6 GB of data)11 significant additions to collections…
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Help save your industrial heritage!
Please support “Mills make the world go ‘round’”, a vital project that needs your help. The Foyle Foundation has pledged £15,000 if we can raise £8,645. We need your help to raise the remaining funds needed to open up the Archive to wider interest groups through an important part of the nation’s heritage with far-reaching relevance:…
Volunteer Spotlight: Surprising connections between mills, art and politics
Our volunteer Susan writes about the work she’s doing at the Archive, and some of the interesting things she’s found along the way. One of the many fascinating things about the collections library here at the Mills Archive is the amazing range of information from around the world. These records, items and accounts show how…
Honour for Alan Stoyel
We are delighted to announce that the New Year’s Honours for 2019 includes an MBE for Alan Stoyel. Alan is one of the founders of the Mills Archive Trust and has previously been Chairman and long-time Committee Member of the SPAB Mills Section. Over 60 years of active study and practical work on rescuing our…
“The Oldest Bread in the World: the earliest-known evidence of bread-making”
Recent findings at a 14,000-year-old archaeological site in Amman, Jordan have rewritten the history of bread-making by 5,000 years! Rebecca Sherratt, Production editor, reports on the recent findings of the ‘earliest-known evidence of bread-making’ found in the Black Desert, Amman, Jordan, in this month’s issue of Milling and Grain. You can read the full article here. …
Round-up of Explore Your Archive Week 2018
“Explore Your Archive Week 2018”, organised by the Archives and Records Association, has drawn to a close, and we’ve enjoyed participating. Each year archives throughout the UK and Ireland take part in this initiative, showcasing material and shining a light on the mysterious happenings at archives. This year we took up the challenge and here…
Armistice 100: Armistice Day 11 November 1918 – a soldier’s view
“Dear Auntie, I escaped from Germany a few days ago and on crossing the frontier was told the very welcome news that an armistice was in force”. So begins the message on the back of this postcard of the smock windmill at Groenlo, in the province of Gelderland, eastern Netherlands on the German border. The…
Armistice 100: The Link Between the Archive and Great War Ambulance Trains
This week the Mills Archive has joined in with commemorating 100 years since the end of the First World War. Ahead of the upcoming launch of our new website feature, Gems of the Archive, we thought we’d share with you a couple of Gems that are particularly topical for this week’s remembrance events. In June…
Armistice 100: The Great War and the Holmans
Like many companies in the milling industry, Holmans Millwrights of Canterbury had men enlist in the First World War. Those who faced active service had to go. However, Holmans negotiated with the War Office by offering the company for munitions work as a means to retain those who were called up for munitions work and…
Heage Windmill Goes to Bed for the Winter
With the onset of November, some chilly frosty mornings and the dark nights creeping in, a lot of us are starting to feel like hedgehogs have been getting it right all along: it really is time to curl up somewhere warm and dry and hibernate until spring! Heage Windmill Society in Derbyshire agrees, and last…