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 Trade. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Trade. Show all posts
Thursday, December 4, 2025

South London manufacturing history 19th and 20th century

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 In his book, L ondon: A History , Francis Sheppard observes that ‘by the end of the eighteenth century, London had more steam engines than ...
Saturday, November 29, 2025

East London manufacturing history 19th and 20th centuries

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  Docklands The first decade of the nineteenth century saw an expansion in docks which would guarantee London's position as the wor...
Friday, November 21, 2025

East London manufacturing history

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 Writing of London in the Nineteenth Century , Jerry White remarks on the large proportion of the population – some 30% - who made things, c...
Thursday, November 20, 2025

Inner London manufacturing history

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 London does of course reach back into Roman times if not earlier. By 1700 it had a population estimated at 575,00 which grew to 900,000 a c...
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