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.

Wednesday, July 24, 2024

Birmingham Manufacturing History

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Britain's second city has been described as a city of a thousand trades and so quite different to Sheffield with its focus on steel, Man...
Saturday, July 13, 2024

Sheffield Manufacturing History

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Sheffield was to steel as Manchester was to cotton and Leeds to wool. In the beginning it was the combination of fast flowing water and...
Friday, June 28, 2024

Nottingham Manufacturing History

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Nottingham was the world’s centre of lace making. It had the largest manufacturer of bicycles in Britain and supplied pharmaceuticals to eve...
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