Category: Blog

What’s this, a new intern?

Hello to you all! My name is Lewis, and I am the new library development intern for 6 weeks over...

Tools of the trade

Alongside papers and photographs, the Mills Archive also collects small milling artefacts. These are some I recently added to our...

As the Darkness Closes Round Us…

The artist Frank Brangwyn is famous for his cheerful watercolour and ink scenes of windmills, alongside which his annotations describe...

The Mills Archive receives the Queen’s Award for Voluntary Service

We are thrilled to announce that the Mills Archive has been awarded the Queen’s Award for Voluntary Service. To receive...

The Devil’s Art: The History of Gunpowder Manufacture

A man in a monk’s habit kneels on the floor, books and implements scattered about him. In his hand he...

Volunteer Spotlight: The Millers of the Past

Author: Pru Barrett In November 2017, Ron Cookson asked me if I would like to compile a database of millers,...

National Mills Weekend 2019 – report and pictures!

The sun was shining and the weather was warm last weekend: the perfect weather to celebrate National Mills Weekend! A...

Volunteer Spotlight: Tolkien’s Token Mill

In the wake of the recent premiere of the film ‘Tolkien’, about the life of the famous author of The...

Gems of the Archive: Hand to Mouth

Although most of the records we hold at the Archive are in paper form, or similar – photos, drawings, documents,...

County Day Series: Huntingdonshire – the Paine’s mills of St Neots

Huntingdonshire was an historic county until it was merged with Cambridgeshire in 1974. However, in 1984, the district was reinstated...

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