British Manufacturing History – Page 22 – How manufacturing shaped Britain. Why manufacturing spread across the country, how it grew, why it declined and what was left.

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Lucas – King of the Air

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Whatever Happened to British Manufacturing

Great audience for my talk for the City of Lincoln branch of the Historical Association

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The British Motor Industry and Semiconductors

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Lucas – King of the Road (and air)

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Addressing obstacles to progress

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The unexpected joys of research

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The inventiveness of the British

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Whatever Happened to British Manufacturing

Fossil fuels powered the industrial revolution, but that is not the whole story.

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Whatever Happened to British Manufacturing

Whatever Happened to British Electronics Manufacturing

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BBC 100 – How it Happened

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Building with Glass

Glass makers in the area of Sussex surrounding Chiddingfofd took advantage of the wood available in the Weald, the sand under foot and the bracken growing each spring to borrow making skills from France and produced the glass needed for the great English cathedrals in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. They were not alone for […]

Building in brick

Brick has been used in building for millenia, dating back certainly to ancient Egypt. During the four centuries of Roman occupation of Britain it is thought that many millions of bricks were made, a technique forgotten in the Dark Ages, but rediscovered in the early Middle Ages. Colchester Castle holds the Roman memory being built […]

Building in stone

Stone was the preserve of the well to do, of churches and of castles. An exception was the northern isles where on Orkney stone was used for communal dwellings, because trees struggled to grow in the fierce winter gales. Buildings dating back 2,500 years remain standing, although uninhabited. The Broch of Mousa on Shetland (the […]

Building in wood

By the time of the Domesday Book, only about fifteen percent of England was wooded, with oak being the most common tree. Oak was a popular building material being strong and easy to work when green and incredibly hard once the sap had gone. Houses were built with green oak which would then shrink, locking […]

Roman Building

Roman architecture stands out because of the variety of materials used and structures built, but most of all because modern building from the Renaissance onward looked to Rome for both theoretical and practical ideas. There are two places to look for this inheritance: the writings of Vitruvius and the remains of Pompey. I am accompanied […]