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 Royal Navy. Show all posts

Friday, August 1, 2025

Plymouth manufacturing history

Set on the western approaches, Plymouth was in many ways Britain's door to the wider world. It was from Plymouth that so many of our ad...

Wednesday, July 9, 2025

Medway towns manufacturing history

Rochester was a cathedral city until local government changes caused the status to lapse on its joining the Medway unitary authority. Never...

Saturday, June 21, 2025

Fareham manufacturing history

Fareham is a coastal town just about half way between Southampton and Portsmouth and it is to Portsmouth I look for clues to the town's ...

Thursday, May 8, 2025

Portsmouth manufacturing history

Portsmouth was one of the earliest homes of naval shipbuilding; there is some evidence that Richard the Lionheart's ships taking him on...

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