British Manufacturing History – Page 19 – How manufacturing shaped Britain. Why manufacturing spread across the country, how it grew, why it declined and what was left.

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Whatever Happened to British Manufacturing

Stoke on Trent manufacturing history

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Whatever Happened to British Manufacturing

Sales of British manufacturers to foreign purchasers.

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Overseas exhibitors at the Great Exhibition

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Who else shaped the manufacturing world?

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Linoleum and vinyl flooring

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Building products manufacturers

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Reviews of Vehicles to Vaccines

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Vickers

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Text of my talk to the Leicester historical association on How Britain Shaped the Manufacturing World

December 12, 2023 — 1 Comment

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Books from my talk

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How Manufacturing Shaped Britain

My explorations are moving toward the built environment. This book sets out to discover how manufacturing shaped this island. Why manufacturing spread across the country, how it grew, why it declined and what was left. It is looking at manufacturing through the lens of geography. Manufacturing transformed the places where it took place. Villages became […]

The American relationship

America has been there in the background all my life. My father was a fan; I had an American godmother. Both these stemmed from the Second World War and my father’s role in army supply, where American industry played such a large part. I went on from there to explore army supply in the First […]

Youth Unemployment

Alan Milburn has published the first part of his report on Youth Unemployment The Guardian ends its leader on target when it says say ‘there needs to be work’. What is the point in training for jobs that don’t exist? I have spent the last five years exploring the story of British manufacturing witnessing from […]

The State we were in?

I read Will Hutton’s The State We’re In when it was first published thirty years ago. I had left my job in the accounting profession for a new career in the not for profit sector. In many ways I was filled with hope. In his Observer piece this Sunday Hutton writes: ‘Yet in 2026 we […]

From gypsum to granite

My journey began near to where Gypsum is mined in Leicestershire by British Gypsum now owned by the French St Gobain. My destination was Penmaenmawr overlooking Anglesey where some of the finest granite was quarried. En route I passed some icons of British Manufacturing. First came Rolls-Royce in Derby with the history of the WW2 […]