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 30, 2025

Taunton manufacturing history

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In a sense this is a story about the most simple manufacturing process, the turning of apples into cider. Yet it draws in strands of the com...
Wednesday, July 16, 2025

Cheltenham & Gloucester manufacturing history

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 In the fifteenth century Gloucester was another centre for the wool and cloth industry. Work with iron was if anything more important with ...

Bristol manufacturing history

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 In 1843 Isambard Kingdom Brunel built a revolutionary ship in Bristol’s western dock. It was iron hulled and had both steam engine and sail...
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