history – Page 8 – British Manufacturing History

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Festival of Britain – Design Review

June 7, 2024 — 2 Comments

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Who else shaped the manufacturing world – American steel

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Who else shaped the Manufacturing World – The American System of Manufacturing

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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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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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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 […]

A Story of the Building of Pre-Elizabethan England

I will explore building from the key raw materials of wood, stone and broch in forthcoming post. For now I am looking at early England. If you follow this link you will be able to see my plan of exploration. In the England of pre-history, so in the bronze and iron ages, settlements and hill […]

Who Built Britain?

Building is in my blood; my mother’s family ran a Midlands building company for ninety-nine years having previously been itinerant craftsmen. I remember with huge affection childhood visits to the ‘yard’. My last employment before I retired was as Chief Executive of Lincoln Cathedral where I learnt something of stone masons and the way medieval […]