Volunteer Spotlight: Milling and Social Change from a Volunteer’s Perspective
Author: Nigel Birch I have been volunteering at The Mills Archive for 18 months or so, having previously known little about the milling industry, its
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Author: Nigel Birch I have been volunteering at The Mills Archive for 18 months or so, having previously known little about the milling industry, its
On Saturday 9th March, Ron, Mildred and I travelled to London for one of the big events in the Mills Archive calendar: The SPAB Mills
In the New Year, we launched an appeal for funds towards a new project, ‘Mills make the world go ‘round’. We had been promised £15,000
At the time of writing this article we are one year into our National Lottery Heritage Fund-supported project, Succession Breeds Success, and I find myself
With a title that sounds like it comes straight from a John le Carré spy novel, our Gems of the Archive story featuring the unusual
Last week Liz and I had the privilege of visiting Ponders End Mills, the home of family milling business G R Wright and Sons. Above:
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
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
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
“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
