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.

Showing posts with label Linen. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Linen. Show all posts
Sunday, October 26, 2025

Belfast manufacturing history

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 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

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 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

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