Features & articles

A wide variety of content about mills and milling from a range of authors

We host a series of features and articles dealing with the historical, social and technical aspects of mills, milling and the people involved.

Themes on Mills and Milling

• Coronavirus and the Milling Industry
  
• Detective work at the Archive
  
• Early medieval Irish watermills
  
• From Quern to Computer: The history of flour milling
  
• Historical introduction to mills and milling
  
• Holman Bros., Millwrights of Canterbury: A history
  
• Kent Millers' Tales
  
• Mills make the world go round
  
• Mills of Finland
  
• Robin and Simpkin: millers and thieves in the Canterbury Tales
  
• Technical descriptions of English windmills
  
• The Advent of Modern Milling
  
• The Decline of Wind and Water Mills
  
• The Great Fire of Emmbrook
  
• Thomas Cogan (1545-1607): Brown bread is good for the digestion
  
• Watermills and Windmills of Middlesex (Second Edition)
  
• Why are so few Domesday mills recorded in Cornwall and Devon? A new thesis
  
• Women in milling
  

Gems from the Archive

• Advertising and symbolism
  
• Art and artists
  
• Disasters
  
• Early photography
  
• Healthy heart
  
• Made to measure
  
• Mills at war
  
• Muscle matters
  
• Women at work