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

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

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

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

Saturday, June 22, 2024

Leicester Manufacturing History

My exploration of British manufacturing has been sector by sector and chronological. It is time now to begin to join up the dots and explor...

Friday, June 14, 2024

Festival of Britain design review

There is, in the archive of the Festival, the hand written draft compilation products selected for the quality of design, alongside the comp...

Friday, May 31, 2024

Manufacturing - the Second World War

For a chunk of British manufacturing, the Second World War began in about 1935 and lasted for ten years. The government’s decision to start ...

Manufacturing for the postwar export drive

The Britain to emerge from the Second World War was broke, deeply in debt to the USA and desperately short of the foreign currency it neede...

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