Philip Hamlyn Williams - my history of British Manufacturing

Britain shaped the manufacturing world. A bold assertion, but is it true? My book How Britain Shaped the Manufacturing World seeks to answer this question. The next question is what happened to British manufacturing? The result of my quest to find answers to that question is in Vehicles to Vaccines. I am now exploring Manufacturing places.

Sunday, October 26, 2025

Belfast manufacturing history

Ireland moved later than much of Britain away from a subsistence economy. The island as a whole was not rich in raw materials yet the clima...

Derry manufacturing history

Derry had been a place of linen production from the early eighteenth century, and in the early nineteenth century it grew as Belfast moved ...

Sunday, October 19, 2025

Antrim coast and glens manufacturing history

This part of Northern Ireland, with the Giants Causeway, is rich in minerals and in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries supported coal,...

Wednesday, October 15, 2025

Dublin manufacturing history

Dublin had been the main route for the export of the island’s textiles. At nearby Prosperous in 1780 Sir Robert Brooke attempted to set up ...

Monday, October 13, 2025

Merthyr Tydfil manufacturing history

In 1759, in Dowlais near Merthyr Tydfil, an iron works was founded by a group of iron masters. Eight years later, John Guest joined the com...

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