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International Women’s Day –Marjorie Isabel Batten 1903-1962

Elizabeth Trout To celebrate International Women’s Day this week (8 March) this newsletter features an interesting woman who played an...

William Cornwell’s retirement certificate

Hannah Pomeroy  This week’s gem is the beautiful calligraphic certificate shown below, given to William Cornwell on the occasion of...

Milling in 19th century Norway

This article first appeared on our blog in May 2020. While sat in a meeting in our Founders’ Room, my...

1552 Indenture

It’s time for the third in our series of 21 gems of the Mills Archive. In the last two newsletters...

Mills on the Chelmer

This week’s newsletter is another extract from the writings and sketchbooks of John Munnings (1916-1987), this time on the mills...

The Threshing Sledge

Two weeks ago our newsletter featured the oldest artefact held by the Mills Archive, the rotary quern from the iron...

Homestead Gristmill

Agnes C Meeker This is a gem of a find located at Homestead Heritage site just outside the town of...

An ancient milling revolution

Nathanael Hodge  Happy New Year to all readers of our newsletter! 2023 is the Mills Archive’s 21st birthday, and in...

Women and needle-making

Susan Ing One of our regular volunteers, Susan Ing, has been sorting through the many books that were donated to...

Moroccan Mills 2 – Technology

Michael Harverson Michael Harverson (1937-2017) was one of the founding trustees of the Mills Archives. A particular interest of his...

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