British Manufacturing History

Snippets of interest

HM Queen Elizabeth II and Manufacturing

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The British Motor Industry

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Characters in Dunkirk to D Day, Snippets of interest

Soldiers and Industrialists

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The British Chemical Industry comes of age

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Steam

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Obstacles to progress

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Early advances in textile production

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News

Engineering links with the Great Exhibition of 1851

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Changes in UK jobs over two centuries help to show what happened to British Industry

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How Britain Shaped the Manufacturing World – reviews

What a really fascinating book that looks at the manufacturing world from the 1850’s through to the 1950’s. Piggybacking on the industrial revolution that saw Britain expand and grow greatly, saw the expansion of the manufacturing industries such as Coal, Metals, Textiles, Glass, Electrical and so on. It was really interesting and reading about some […]

Podcast extract from chapter 1

This is a podcast of the first part of the first chapter exploring the catalogue of the Great Exhibition The chapter explores some of the companies exhibiting; some names evoke memories of famous businesses and their founders. Some continue to this day, others have disappeared from view

UK Manufacturing podcast

Thrilled to have had the opportunity to talk about How Britain Shaped the Manufacturing World on the Jefferson_MFG podcast If you like what you hear, you may like to read the book!

How Britain Shaped the Manufacturing World – blurb

The peoples of the British Isles gave to the world the foundations on which modern manufacturing economies are built. This is quite an assertion, but history shows that, in the late eighteenth century, a remarkable combination of factors and circumstances combined to give birth to Britain as the first manufacturing nation. Further factors allowed it […]

How Britain Shaped the Manufacturing World – by chapter

The Great Exhibition of 1851 celebrated over seventy years of British manufacturing built on invention and hard work, but also slavery and harsh working conditions. A century later, the Festival of Britain pointed to a future of peace built on creativity. They are part of the same story. In the mid eighteenth century, Britain, like […]