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.

Tuesday, September 23, 2025

Oxford manufacturing history

Oxford is home to one of our ancient universities, until a century or so ago committed to the teaching of the classics and theology. The un...

Cambridge manufacturing history

Cambridge is of course the other of our ancient universities and the offspring of Oxford whose students fled there to escape death at the co...

Friday, September 19, 2025

Rugby manufacturing history

Home to Rugby Portland Cement, a famous school and a wonderful game. The London Birmingham railway arrived in 1838 and set up goods ya...

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