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, October 29, 2025

Oldham manufacturing history

Oldham was one of the Lancashire cotton towns but the story of Oldham is perhaps a little different to that of Preston with the advantage t...

Sunday, October 26, 2025

Belfast manufacturing history

Ireland moved later than much of Britain away from a subsistence economy. The island as a whole was not rich in raw materials yet the clima...

Derry manufacturing history

Derry had been a place of linen production from the early eighteenth century, and in the early nineteenth century it grew as Belfast moved ...

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