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.

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Showing posts with label Copper. Show all posts

Sunday, January 25, 2026

Manufacturing history of Wales

Coal, iron ore, copper and tin were the raw materials that made Wales key to the British industrial revolution. Slate from North Wales cover...

Monday, January 19, 2026

Manufacturing in southwest England

Cornwall was the source of valuable metals, until more accessible reserves were found elsewhere and so a very much part of the Industrial R...

Wednesday, October 8, 2025

Swansea manufacturing history

Swansea at the mouth of the Tawe was recognised as a natural harbour by Norse pirates and came into its own with the discovery of bituminou...

Thursday, August 28, 2025

The Scramble for Africa

In any search for significant British manufacturing places, the continent of Africa figures for good or mainly evil. It had the resource th...

Monday, August 11, 2025

Camborne and Redruth manufacturing history - Cornish Mining

Mining in this central part of Cornwall had been going on long before the Christian era with miners from what would become northwest France...

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