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The Newgate Prison Windmill

Stephen Buckland This is an abridged version of an unpublished typescript by Stephen Buckland (1935-2006) which is held in the...

English paper mills and forged French currency

A version of this article originally appeared as two posts on the Mills Archive blog in 2019. Mills have often...

Feeding the World. Windmills and watermills: Preservation and restoration  

From Quern to Computer; a history of flour milling by Martin and Sue Watts covers a wide range of topics and  Chapter 15 is the...

Moroccan Mills

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

The Staff of Holmans of Canterbury

A few weeks ago we featured the history of the firm Holman Brothers of Canterbury in our newsletter. In this...

Roller flour mill collections

At the Mills Archive we have a wide range of interests covering a variety of subjects connected to mills and...

A typical country miller 

A few weeks ago, we featured some of the writing of John Munnings (1916-1987) with his memories about growing up...

Using our Mills Database

The database of mills on our website contains more than 12,000 entries, and can be searched in a variety of ways....

The Old Miller of Sidestrand and Poppyland

This article first appeared on our blog in March 2019. Whilst recording the many histories of millers in our collections,...

Feeding the World. Cereal products: The early medieval period, c.AD500 to the present day  

From Quern to Computer; a history of flour milling by Martin and Sue Watts covers a wide range of topics and  Chapter 14 is...

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